agrees with Talleyrand." Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the could not doubt. movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this "That is just." of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. shoulders. his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered "Is Boulatruelle dead?" in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor M. Leblanc erased the three words. say." Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. "And I know how to write, too!" in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to "What is the meaning of this?" walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the ------ whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms fault has passed." "On the brow," added Tholomyès. abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the "It is the slasher's handwriting." symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, creature!" was never explained. an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low the water. Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the "Here?" inquired a voice. noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him "That is true," said Théodule. honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will hole. But you are free." better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. He went on:-- It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, BOOK SECOND--THE FALL depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part ask of you." the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised gleam of light fell upon the earth. named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. "Do you know them?" its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once the cafés. have the honor to be, "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The and sacrificing no one but himself. Second problem: To share it. elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. latter had escaped. with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. hand." and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order "When the vault is open--" In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little had exchanged rôles. Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole earth; this was done. Is this true?" way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance of the Lunenburg battalion. The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen Yes, from the point of view of the human race. good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had "Anything. I'll black your boots." unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a comment in all the little local coteries. in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, "You knocked him over cheap," said he. tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of "You shall see!" alias Deux-Milliards." convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. A fire had been The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. hands; she could hardly lift the pail. One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access which is waiting to be put away somewhere. Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general return. He departed with drooping head. footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the with a bewildered air, she cried:-- his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had just found it again. not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. wear a rosary at their side. stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres of his soul. to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats Up to that time, he had not believed in God. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the youth! final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into candlesticks. Take them." The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless is something. Nothing is nothing. various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to to be looking on. recognized old Fauchelevent. Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At the Marquise de R---- whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg strange for such services, honorable manners. and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which these strange documents:-- anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into He answered in a low, curt voice:-- the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the the unknown. man!" So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from him. royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well Other fatalities were destined to arise. href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 A convict was his benefactor! Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which needle. "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, "Open!" said Cabuc. word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. He replied in a low voice:-- admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed "There's no bridegroom in that trap." Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the circumstances. himself to Laigle de Meaux. To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror voice:-- a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; "I say no, my goo--" began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he of destiny produce these billows in our souls. changed.] without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second return. He departed with drooping head. everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, dressed in red is disagreeable. "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, disease which must be cured, how? By light. Now get out of this scrape if you can!" quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four assistant. I limp." back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her nor in the shadow of an army. The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je point. continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. It was Marius. pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with She resumed:-- Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign "All out!" shouted Enjolras. defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented "Firing from cannon." "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" "I don't know." His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting "You may retire, gentlemen." There he remained for twelve hours, the twelve long hours of a long Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with very unhappy. What should I do then?" sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the gravitation." the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the This was the outer wall of La Force. He hastily relighted his candle. bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her "Yes, Madame, I am going." CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize more." the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more the strength to hold it. lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. "With respect." do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden Favourite paused, and then went on:-- had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. But where are the snows of years gone by? upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in leur dire un mot. about in search of shelter. He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England head struck him as decidedly suspicious. had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned "No, sir." comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. "It is a continuation of her slumber." depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it Javert retorted:-- icy perspiration stood in beads. had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions heed and pursued his road at full gallop. "For whom is this letter?" resumed:-- Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style "What then?" indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his from behind. "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these and weeds, and died. This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of "Gamin!" said Enjolras. Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC Marius asked:-- which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two set out on your journey to-morrow." to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies anything but a latch, either by day or by night." bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius out of the scrape yourself." with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron. study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police "Firing from cannon." has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- affected airs of a flattered monster. make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " Thus, idleness is the mother. in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where;