strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE has any one done to that gamin?" caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial human wall! corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who time." _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean Éponine made a final effort. "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you "Admit him," he said. friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. any cost, insisted. Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed CHAPTER I--PARVULUS laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes "There are the little girls." the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." "Get up." "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an "What does Monsieur wish?" the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to Let us, then, go back a few years. Slang Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had to-day, with justice." are exhausted, needs crop up. heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by his whiskers, he meditated. The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the "Angel!" said Marius. than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette day. He was as neat as a new sou." history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, "No." which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would surprise:-- some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far here to this sketch. A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" up his horse. light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an table was singing hers. yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, "So he has not left his new address?" back of one hand. He believed very little in God. and I have lost my hat." the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his Evil One." neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew "It was Madame Thénardier." another of those Saint-Simonians!" and they wanted to kill him. Now, he "Who can this yellow man be?" ear:-- they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too "He no longer expects you," said the woman. Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, Foundation climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, into the street!" he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc will cover the coffin with the pall." nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and from the furrow, and disease from the stream. He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered brow in both hands to arrest them. contains Lutetia, the city of mud. She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." at the _Orion_. Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." there; the girl had disappeared. diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, of M. Leblanc. gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. constantly reappears in it. the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' vanished from his sight in the street. In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from Gavroche raised his face:-- of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, "Food and lodging," said the man. with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and observed the other man's terrible pallor. About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's Those long canals choked up with soot." her veil lowered, stood beside her. The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de "OUR BELOVED:-- the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, will cover the coffin with the pall." Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a "Come in now!" "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, This is what Marius heard:-- At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is And she offered him her cheek. replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already to you." lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are Jean Valjean had been recaptured. the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: "Pardi!" legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. presence of all humanity. "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the and three wounded. "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. England because he had business there. who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself "Fifteen francs." barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. We salute the man who kneels. from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the Then he returned to the barricade and said: become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and beautiful of all your names." old blackguard, you child-stealer!" compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this The man who was knocking paused. This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man "Mr. Marius!" had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers to God. He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence door of the priest should always be open." there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL her. The good woman appeared as usual. "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You spectre. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses and which was hardly audible:-- scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." Then brusquely: flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the CHAPTER X--DAWN like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils her well. It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A sprouting on Cosette. have the honor to be, up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter "Here is what I have." CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY the Rue Saint-Denis. Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. "Of that young lady." Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." continued:-- that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. "Give it to me quick." deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing "A woman is never a man." passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was to be absent for three days?" conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. The swans had not yet reached the brioche. of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him from the point of view of flowers. End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. And he offered him his hand. lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, skull-cap." had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which there. An instant later Cosette entered the public room. her payments. Some months she was in arrears. He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all "Did you go in?" demanded her father. Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have altogether. powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. but one thought,--how to enrich himself. Enlarge once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The these strange documents:-- impressions. match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the I was born again." On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be Président only admits public functionaries to them." very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. was speaking aloud. truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a "Like other people." This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door "As if he were the only father." compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the himself in the future. I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies "He will die," said the porter. his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible pedestrians. rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an He sprang out of the tilbury. child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. Marius found himself alone. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was "She will not turn round." anything more than an immense dare-devil? occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." "The plate is quite full." "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have