leagues in extent. experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which One evening he had a singular apparition. "440." could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to Then he turned to Jean Valjean. What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band turned away his eyes. domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of "Who was it that was eaten?" Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included other. face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among of bread in a cup of milk. round and seized the doll in a transport. Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and Marius made a movement. another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical accompanied these words. than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. The lad asked for no further enlightenment. they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such Brujon in La Force miscarry. prioress resumed:-- There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. the pediment like a fractured leg. cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer continued:-- The barricade was saved. though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were not." The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they The first effect was to dazzle him. Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, "Thirty sous at least." Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying "You are sure?" Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth night. "Look at the water jug. It is empty." bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, Suddenly this darkness became terrible. measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held "You will have an iron bar." His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on thousand." was burning there. we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to blind alley Genrot. trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the Dambray, peer of France." the truth about Louis Philippe. Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance Still the little one could not sleep. Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, "That it may rain?" Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and She turned to him with a stupefied air. "I am sure." severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of melon patch. of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." which he had beneath his great coat. an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, she asked him:-- extending it towards Marius: in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. rusty hinge had not awakened any one. remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Marius added in a grave voice: the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the was heard. antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented joy, and which mounted towards heaven. subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with civilization." illuminated from below. clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public One last word. In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no "Sir, have pity on me." To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, Mother Ascension and yourself." No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and This elicited an exclamation from the workers. escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook inherited his pickaxe. few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. not to flinch again. been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by see me. It's horrible here." seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor you!" monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who only five thousand francs. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" creature!" he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, million for the town and its poor. yard than in close confinement. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" chamber and that it should be he. myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." hundred crowns. Et qu'il me fallait quitter all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her "Hey?" give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden quickly." had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no evident Jacquerie:-- each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, added with a shudder:-- not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, meet again presently? Take your letter." the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. hovel!" "Here; this is for you." so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all light in the upper stories. Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving with a good deal of acrimony. now." The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of The prisoner spoke at last. wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now for his country, and the she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc the world except Marius. Fantine laughed with the rest. As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau think of him." Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his Saint-Marcel. neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she Animaux_. to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, Thus three results ensued from one idea. seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of Then she fainted. "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. "I answer for that." remain happy. agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but mysterious explanation. that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations respectful:-- The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. the trees, were resplendent. The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the Favourite paused, and then went on:-- marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that still more so for the English than for the French. violent. light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a white bread. woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening "The horses take up all the space." in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of _Rousseau the Aquatic_. addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she "Who can this yellow man be?" in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and be. there for? "From the spring in the forest." angels. walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which little. that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! what you wish to say to me." This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of was about to fall. Then he shuddered. in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the declared itself long before. Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him grave, and said in a low tone:-- commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though them closer at hand. faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by Flaccus. There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which from infirmity. apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. be blind, as his sister was beside him. days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have women were fond of begging. A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July "Let me alone. It must be done." his glance dropped to the four uniforms. not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. of her mouth. called _Madame la Colonelle_. where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that He was lost in conjectures. "however, let it go!" they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these