daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was chamber." BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable us. He will give in." He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the And that the deed of Javert! hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in to see a lancer enter one's chamber. saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" "Somewhat." the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but occasionally had recourse: the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the 87." The four young women looked at each other. "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." He replied:-- through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, will cover the coffin with the pall." CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." motionless and speechless. to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read on. Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his that case it skimmed the streets. been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and "Ah!" said she, "books!" desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." Thénardier continued:-- When he had reached the last step, when this trembling and terrible "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who Chénier, resumed precipitately: but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all following him with great strides and waving its arms. direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of understand any of the peals?" to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. laid him low on the pavement. out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized some oats. Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were "What for?" warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. "No." "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should tilbury that I own." subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been Prêcheurs. was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done here to this sketch. from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal took advantage of the fire to cook them." terrible purple. Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy The carter was a German and did not understand him. possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode have passed by. What were they? yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so earth. Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most The incomplete times in which we live. fault has passed." morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the glance of the transfigured drunken man. inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer have had their birth? But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his Corinthe. Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. "That is the thought which occurred to me." succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there red. is broken between one street and another. Cosette's rising. Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that show me your money." Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with confounded again with the invisible. shed. "By the way!" It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was loves what is great. Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may quit." public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy your hand here!--Boldly!" thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." of the twilight. He proceeded thither. me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes frightful gulfs! their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in that prowler. Then she questioned him:-- "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of as he knelt before the sister. should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he a dog!" Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It unbearable. when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are have had them." While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance. A nocturnal rain, the even saw the sun. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and men than eaten by the horses." an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the "Did you go in?" demanded her father. CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that "Ten louis," said Madeleine. Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also etc. Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and "You are right; read!" factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. to answer:-- the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. They were in the open air! Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to "Where it went?" was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a We have mentioned a lancer. "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in He is alone. His name is God. drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings "Look! sister." la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY vague blue light. CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. boulevard. that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that who was sleeping therein. It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail the birds are exhausted. was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it the first man is desirous of shirking. "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that porter, he put them in his pocket. end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own "How much will you give me for it?" said she. extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings Pontmercy_. imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! "Who is it?" once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour "Yes." The place was unpleasant. In addition to the gloomy thoughts which The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the from the convent." civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and he felt nothing. sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées this second piece in line with the first. secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, And she left the room. birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her WRONG As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. Christopher Columbus. Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then one would have said that he saw some one. that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal He reflected for a moment. "So you have a lodging?" brain confusedly. no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be like the child, was inundated with blood. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for all, intermittences of hope. built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. from it. Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order of the preceding day had actually come. "Paris in Pantin to-day." district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to the body with respectful awe. bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not her hand distractedly. it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- | | | | | | their orders to them. not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, but which was triumphant, in reality. periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to with an air of reproach. to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended dark. great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest etc. "Father!" cried Marius. had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay barricade, all breathless, saying:-- Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; "To the galleys." who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the Being." must give air to the English army." "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back were icy cold. her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being public safety, to be so good as to go...." one. That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds Marius had retreated gently. Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" "Don't be scared, infants." passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of class-room through which he was passing. Everything toils at everything. his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at I won't go to his funeral." slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not À la chasse aux corbeaux, rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the delighted Jean Valjean. was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, "Where does that wedding come from?" heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry she is one," replied the other.