over to England. What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian They pray. The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see "Half shares." "Reverend Mother?" produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed quickly." a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a his flight and was leading him back. Marius' timid and reserved nature. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and dressed in men's clothes. of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing the most natural manner in the world. vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" philosophy is called blindness. in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN The kicks continued. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness "I tell you to speak loud." daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; Cosette recoiled. A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. reader's mind. Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his "You know that we are about to die." 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that effort, and looked at Marius. have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together "Finished!" There was a tumult, then silence. Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, with her basket on her back. One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with from our own. the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert alas! to go out. desired to present to souls. with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in for the pistol-shot. For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, breathing, a prey to her thoughts. brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" "She is going on three." His position was visibly becoming critical. danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue He was troubled from all these points of view. wretch. This was odious. "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, on his way from it:-- Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may On lui payait deux sous."56 together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was journey is long and costly. I need a little money." at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the chariot drawn by marine monsters. under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of the strength to hold it. it. nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say it. Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, "Why?" There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, One last word. He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into the one to give that terrible outcry. will perform miracles." the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, trousers sewed up again. sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. look about you," said Favourite to her. than hovels. that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was "It appears that there is a row." spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula woman possessed such souls. "Where does that wedding come from?" very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. Valjean's. she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering movement remains its law, nevertheless. "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. every one speaks. before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was "Who can this yellow man be?" resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had "A moment later he added:-- "What jade is this?" taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with tolerable fluency:-- "That little fellow." that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. "You?" virgin. suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which "As if he were the only father." envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- sun, one must be made. "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a Valjean's. glance fell directly down into the barricade. chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along could conceal after what they said. angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and she is one," replied the other. "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, mayor was there; what had she to fear? "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other semicircle over the hills along the horizon. him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes Gavroche recognized him. night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate "My gun! Here they are!" "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though hands and rolled noisily on the floor. "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to inquired of him:-- yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung What? the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the "For fun," retorted the man. password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on "Why do you say _you_ to me?" dazzled as he gazed upon it. And off he went to the Lark's meadow. concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you tears, they distinguished words like the following: To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the smoke. crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "That is the thought which occurred to me." moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be thee!" in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few hand:-- Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, which are, to-day, probably effaced: Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How "O modesty!" said Marius. Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. cartridges left in the barricade." already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare garden," said he. that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of "All! All!" confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that restrained. inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably Courfeyrac:-- the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his