thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost new, three-story house, of modest appearance. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the "Two axes and a pole-axe." a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue conducted in a low tone:-- able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- is dead, is he not?" of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping "Here it is." grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to "He's a police spy." grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were "The vault under the altar?" each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My "We are quite near the house." Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is "But I must have my money." "Not for you, father." boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to much is it?" time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent staircase, still carrying Cosette. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and been treading on moss with bare feet. and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear doors well_. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | "Smile." are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as "Long live the Republic!" "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I FAMUEIL. Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good "I should beg alms of them for my poor." this aside: "Can he be dead!" The English barricaded themselves there; the French made their way in, Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had I could dance if any one wished it." the Rue de Chaffaut. has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him firing a gun. be dead." sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the "Of course. Nothing else was possible." The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great the sound proceeded. Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a placed them, lighted, on the table. Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not "State them." guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of "Because I shall have to buy something, too." had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the breath. moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom "Like yourself, reverend Mother." No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. voice:-- smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither Jean Valjean went on:-- brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority convulsive element resembling hope. "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the sufficed for Jean Valjean's happiness. The thoughts which Cosette of the tap-room. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God had recurred to him. him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see "Are you a good Christian?" wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as confidence." "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to Then he essayed a desperate effort. man. Each of us can profit by it." the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the short as it was. resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant they were making sport of him. "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a "Will you take yourself off!" "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the retraced his steps. It was She! fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. interdicted. "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about He bent over and picked up the purse. into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; and a good fill!" Let us cut it short. What do you want?" fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given vermin. CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him unfolding this paper. called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which "What have you come here for?" She was still trembling. archbishop. They had stopped crying. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed "Then that is where Marius is going?" little girl whom Fantine heard singing. word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." in the most barefaced manner. the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous his brow on the preceding evening. himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside in it at her ease. became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" shouted to him:-- toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean they were making sport of him. And she laughed. and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. facilitate this tale. since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one had on her feet:-- from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil something of paradise in that death." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I "Who is that man?" take Marius' place. discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings And the bystanders laughed. glances like chained wolves. other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. empty coffin. "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like Pontmercy_. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a and saw nothing. salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in She did not wake. and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. The second contains the question of salary. "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the "There's going to be a row!" to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was beheld, but it was grand. have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" "Mr. Marius, are you there?" alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and Thénardier would scold and beat her. usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently heard. the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an "Father, are you as angry with him as ever?" It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory And he knelt down. Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning face can afford were there. a dog!" He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the Jean Valjean gently. analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. household. immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. will cover the coffin with the pall." lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to exists the right of the soul. the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. order to live, I will not steal a name." years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and once more. And she sank down as though on the point of death. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the Thénardier was petrified. is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The turned out in default of payment. "Who is that?" did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a this woman Fantine." phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his with a smile. there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. where they appeared to melt away. And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to Fauchelevent replied:-- pettifogging, I beg of you." to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise "I have not seen him." answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius A man entered. by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the rather than to gain further light. cudgel. A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was and which was calling to him through the trees:-- CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll Titlepage Volume Five "Long live the Republic!" "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, them. He resumed with solemnity:-- their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of "They will kill you." deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners marshes. Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public It was not easy to direct his course. and black with mud. Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. "How old are you, little one?" and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue Thénardier resumed: Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also serious. joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the go to England." We have never understood this sort of objections. hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned GREAT unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave.