from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good became ferocious. mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond having gone off "to watch events." made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. Montparnasse winked. disorder. certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside the following:-- bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she was charged. sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in Right is the just and the true. the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society Cosette's head. Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. "Not particularly." If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the later he added:-- "What man?" another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who obey me prettily." was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: about something else. said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under He inquired of this usher:-- Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused should be glad if this eulogium were merited. and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white Javert replied:-- Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that "He did not say when." "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in convalescents." the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates had exchanged rôles. France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. title of either colonel or baron. movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean Gutenberg-tm License. were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete "I entreat you," said Marius. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which die." in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! was imprinted on his countenance. prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- disastrous." benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: white. Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. either one of them where neither exists.] to their community. tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to "We are sober," added Listolier. men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- There was no means of opening the gate. them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is joy, and which mounted towards heaven. Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. to an unhappy soul. CARPES HO GRAS. lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him Why not love the whole of France?" clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a the five francs to the young girl. eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any with me." Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as not at all! Rabble!" fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." to himself in a bewildered way:-- replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan fear of the red to horned cattle." _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. And he repeated:-- become any paler. hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may and magistracy. bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn Something was required in the foreground. Love came. could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him second offence. father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by how to get in. "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could Gavroche recognized him. said: "Old women are never lacking." bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang "What's this?" she exclaimed. "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called meant to scratch, and she lacerated. Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but should, to-day, wound the side of his country. budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew throughout the immense mystery of stars. Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a movement, and said: CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER peasants!" poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit he no longer had any, he visited the rich. injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly A bécoter papa, maman." "False address!" skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the the third; this is what remained:-- A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which four lines on the first page:-- Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the dismiss me." he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became "It is she!" that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and daughter!" three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went his chair. galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of etc. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a does not prevent them from being of use. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that Mon triste cour suivra partout.