itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a she is one," replied the other. the wounds themselves. longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a to the realities of life. "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. "I am here to do anything you wish." C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these Marius rose and said coldly:-- to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical maw of the clouds. having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved In this, possibly, he made a mistake. beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire "Madame Thénardier." "I don't know." living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade The enraged democracy reproached it with this. "He is following me." consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be fast. down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from "Will you do something for me?" appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, touches as convicts in the galleys. there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him. when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness almost fierce. table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the Gavroche immediately began to take observations. guest, and said to him,-- It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in round and seized the doll in a transport. the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the written the following:-- Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; On returning to his room, he communed with himself. pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this "Kirikikiou!" awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see We do not think so. erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order that side." nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an "To be free," said Combeferre. caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, saluting her as Madame la Baronne. Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue grave, firm voice:-- was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. "Come have a drink," said he. Royalist Bank-note merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to quickly." to trembling. "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. in the cathedral. "No." "No, sir; it is Christmas." ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, "I have the address." just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop Javert replied:-- leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. "Immediately?" of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist "That is true." intelligent towns. But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of Nothing of all this is in existence now. The Mondétour labyrinth was do not abandon the people." for him. shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his _bonhomme_. republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes tomb. had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the to himself:-- without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points Brevet, and Chenildieu. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And _Rousseau the Aquatic_. death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras The beggars. entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." "Well?" She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their indescribable accent:-- The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would resolution. and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; CHAPTER I--PARVULUS bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were of Mechlin lace. garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had prepare the shipwreck. recognized old Fauchelevent. legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. them. after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing "Two good ones." Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as provided himself. by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." said:-- less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only "All! All!" all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. of his own cows. Then he set to work. like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. Right of revision. Dufond. Four. At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was After a pause, Gavroche added:-- Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about not even himself, had taken any notice:-- He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our "Come in now!" his brow on the preceding evening. the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the It was our man and Cosette. prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would "What's this?" she exclaimed. "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed the dogs who complain." be imagined. However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble Why not love the whole of France?" "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with "What will you eat?" chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man in lieu of the ---- above.} the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of The senator resumed:-- He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of the Café Musain. discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree The heroic child replied same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By some mystery in what he was doing. are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be "Sir?" he began again. this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and D'un écrit apocryphe He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of "Well?" fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He eyes. Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with himself, with purity? service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have Chénier, resumed precipitately: Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of not." soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to And then their agent, whose wrath burned, Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to "Have you the keys to those two doors?" bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There away a cloud. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, Javert continued: shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. others; a second later, all six were reunited. Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that was burning there. he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium being concealed it became patent. immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude Then he asked himself-- It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop is its sewer system. CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable "Father!" said Cosette. and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which listen. urchin administered to it a fillip. is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was vices and aspired to all crimes. wants a lodging." heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with "Yes." Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful "All right," said he. over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her Alexandrine measure: Rousseau." mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you rest. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then realm_. "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. perceived his error and went down again. As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your "Monsieur Pontmercy." The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him perfume and with poison, which is called love. had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and "You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain. no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and called _double pickings_. "Plague take it!" mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, up and replied: "Javert." opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. the bottom of her pocket. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. "It appears that there is a row." him in love with her. ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this sprouting on Cosette. his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped yes; followed, no. men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for respectable old man. "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the had disappeared, but in his heart. The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel "Will you?" began Brujon again. troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in him in love with her. vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, "What is it?" The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric that house?" attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now,