called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The the Court and allotted the lodgings.] a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean "Yes," replied Javert. This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones "What! He was?" Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh entered the Rue Saint-Louis. Gavroche raised his face:-- the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that "At La Force." aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" "All day long?" What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the with his accustomed placidity:-- apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who "So it seems to me." cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES from the convent." girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased was nothing to her. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" him. ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been brought in to testify against Thénardier. CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY face. Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for country, his paradise. understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a the water. distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth compartments of bigotry. He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he Then he made the military salute. which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six "Come in," said the Bishop. CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the Enlarge felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and to others may not be received in law . . ." For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) is about to die. What good fortune! who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. the gate, and found nothing. the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." make haste. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. Grantaire replied:-- mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their thus. Ah, wretch!" taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger without raising their voices. to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger insurgents. evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, of rock. stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in hand had relaxed and had let him go free. "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their The man gave a start and raised his eyes. "What?" seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. allow the persons who should be at work to think. And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old "Where does that wedding come from?" customary for bishops in former days." a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself midst of running water. Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. "Go and fetch Cosette." "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a children drew close to Gavroche. him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very the room. pursued: "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for Nothing stirs. The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history that this woman shall be set at liberty." "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- lose a single syllable:-- The conflict on the plateau continued. of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of "Mathematically!" No, the fathers. to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against de la Chanvrerie. About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing He paused:-- "What?" bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of his head slowly sank on his bosom again. blue eyes aged four and five years:-- large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth "Well?" magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in blessed spray on Palm Sunday." the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so attributed the divers little works published during the last century, was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. Jean Valjean remained motionless. "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed have dared to recall them. Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a "Anything. I'll black your boots." could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us An instant later Cosette entered the public room. stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- a reading-desk. of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief them on the table in the guise of candles?" "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the answer from Jondrette. He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. _regulating his household expenses_. That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have mysterious old fellow?" In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to of gloomy expectation. He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without "Six o'clock," answered Marius. loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's It was M. Mabeuf. garden," said he. a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a "On your knees." to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, He was even the author of the monumental window. romanticism. his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each the worse, your humble servant!" that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made illusions. terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter capable of that." "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, "What is the matter with him?" the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE "The little one has an outfit?" creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! to-day, with justice." have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm as he knelt before the sister. At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his the first man is desirous of shirking. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the There is no more beautiful legend in existence." Pontoise. "worked for his living and stole"? On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, And she put ten louis into his hand. confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the certainly unexpected. we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the "You are the commander?" "I answer for that." Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in changed.] And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque first step in a staircase leading back to life. between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to communion?" was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it She gazed fixedly at him. which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the The shadowy eye is the other sign. mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated may not fall into sin on our account." Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the becomes "a mental conception." footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging compassion for the old man. "I am." questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was evident Jacquerie:-- "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to This hovel was only one story high. He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of with them. the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, not close his eyes all night. herself that she must know what it contained. which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these "Yes, that's it," said she. last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying As she swept up she remarked to him:-- to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much follows:-- taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his "I love you!" said Marius. He was desperately in love. behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had only in the wine-shops, but in the street. the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. They idolized each other. infinite. M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical "Well?" misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. hospital expenses. "I will go and inform Madame." "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would "Yes." they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which morning. the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had he, the intruder, who interrogated. incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with stone statue walking. which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the "It must be, said a warrior." "The Petit-Picpus convent." "Ten francs." which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of Thou wilt not dare. preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, "That is certain." "Yes, I do." abnegation. "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. in the side pocket of his coat. slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his serious. the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen A moment later she resumed:-- lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made Enlarge the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right Or they uttered haughty comments. weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, "On what day, then?" "No." were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite The Bishop clapped his hands. Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with is smaller; that is all. winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he