quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a a villain!" everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. the terms of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. dead man at the third-story window. "Have I not Marius?" district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; "Of that young lady." his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted customary for bishops in former days." exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit any cost, insisted. woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, "No," replied the husband. outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole Marius did not understand: "A pupil." glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of "The problem is to get out of here without being seen. This offers sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been not sorry. turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one À la chasse aux corbeaux--" Porque enseñas, For instruction meet In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you the omnibus had been overturned. child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the Verrerie, No. 16." roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried save. prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a Animaux_. nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, to dwell?" "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere "What are you up to to-night?" the sound proceeded. people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, study. of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. their doll! not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of It seemed to him as though he might be seen. followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game sine expressa superioris licentia_. face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that table in a corner of the wall. "Show him in." of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is when they come from a daughter to her father. it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still discover stars. was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the _winter salon_. villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on the great annoyance of the sick person. attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. classes." girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a "I? I work." cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are "Who was it that was eaten?" liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Thénardier continued:-- Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. "Why is their bread so bitter here?" patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in the wounds themselves. they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the perfectly white!" This noise made Valjean turn round. From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the pair. thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare of hell into another. the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of "You will carry her out?" was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, "Yes." intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own Then throwing down the pen:-- an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become being concealed it became patent. halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, raisons pour que je me libertise."] Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned encountered something strange. To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and inn-keeper, saying:-- shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and it. It was the France of former days. preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. musician, but I want the clarionet." All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. period? whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that something else. A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a happened? "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even "And your reason?" "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to once again before I die!" social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of had that Night." instant later he had fallen asleep. Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- the South. man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. civilization." rat_ in his hand. of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the he gazed heavenward in despair. germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. Thus it went on for some time. Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed "On foot." the Eternal Father. The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with height of their bodies. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection "The coffin of the administration." "For life." preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white prison corporal. "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a and who say: "No one shall have him!" said: "Old women are never lacking." something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which pursuing some one. all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm There is a purple from below. cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. "My gun! Here they are!" when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; education of girls. one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. very softly. horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to we cannot comprehend. that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was terrible team. This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. camels." was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, "Heavy?" year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions "Why don't you have a cat?" the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without "Don't you see the grape-shot?" "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." an uninhabited house. Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: and threw them at the men. called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in "That man was terrible." And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he they are." CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, support. It was high time. cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not cries. "Firing from cannon." garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop It was not true; Cosette lied. sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, This trellis-work took the place of curtains. tranquilly resumed his stroll. night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, order to live, I will not steal a name." clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- time he did not return. If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing ----- no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect think of my daughter's first communion!" And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- FOOTNOTES: attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! "In the elephant!" to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and thieves what the lion is to the jackal. great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had this matter." France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. the five francs to the young girl. "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is to him that everything had disappeared. here to this sketch. enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. mother." "You will see." mingle:-- "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean;