him have only a wooden spike." "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these him and had not touched him. of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him "And people also." IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an stars, from a great distance." "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, down. "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house decided on. DISEMBARKING of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten "Where will you obtain it?" to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year Then throwing down the pen:-- "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is only in the lower court. Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, appearances that people affect." face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these "A spare wheel?" which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years "The cowards!" Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, stupid majesty which befits white creatures. Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received will do us no more harm." this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 strong-minded is an important item. "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties "Very well, then!" shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: "Informed against me!" She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the ingrates, his country and myself." CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a The Jondrette entered. "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured had been executed. would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle "philanthropist" had left with him. mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself whom you do not inherit.'" public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. Pour Meudon. also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This with an air of reproach. and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not "He is wrong not to come to-day, since I am going away to-morrow." If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it "And when shall you return?" passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this "Well, I don't mean that you shall." Foundation One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording his head several times in succession. tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black of the dawn. All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The "What?" asked Marius. "In this cab," said Marius. petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or "On your knees." better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such there is no longer any Carnival. suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more neck. "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius nights are cold, the days are hot.' peasant's head. France. _Quia nomina leo_." dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he "Oh! Why?" with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The "So you have no mother." aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his friends of those bygone days. what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a "At the Court of Assizes." He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took "More often!" "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his interdicted. wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes which he stood. though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then BOOK SECOND--THE FALL laid him low on the pavement. with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by it was formidable for that epoch. provided their opponent will kill them. the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and morning?" to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had continued:-- why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old the prisoner. We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never The emotion aroused was indescribable. "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. "Where is Montparnasse?" themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That we were told. The orchard is terrible. one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the themselves by nature joy and happiness. armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. when she said to Jean Valjean:-- to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I man, in the barricade. Then glancing about her:-- "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. "That's it." Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of all frankness. Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; are a good fellow, don't enter." The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death there was in Danton something of Hercules. side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take reason for being unjust towards God." under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the evolved from that word. the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the "Here goes!" said Théodule. "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one as he knelt before the sister. sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and "The sun is on the point of setting." He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean "Of course. He told us." of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter and cards before the time of Charles VI. life. "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, shortens,--the Gospel's. which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be of destroying the colonel's saviour? appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the to him:-- The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as with a lively curiosity. really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of Jean Valjean caught himself up. "What's this?" she exclaimed. this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew "What are rats?" And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult. In the beginning, the blood. multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le soul. homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to little girl whom Fantine heard singing. animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman angle of the Corinthe building. "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not Up to that time, he had not believed in God. contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke battle-field. charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her seemed to be gazing at the sky. costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de we cannot comprehend. the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on glance fell directly down into the barricade. The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced "With what?" descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any shop over the way." But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, always refused to men. candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." "Marius Pontmercy." greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it Let us recount what had taken place. word. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. useful." which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion "Why?" first. Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. abnegation. often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last January 21. resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his Cosette rushed into the room. There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled sewer. needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, "Yes." tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of "But it is forbidden." But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went themselves by nature joy and happiness. Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar Courfeyrac's door. civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with The stone was still there. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some gendarme. from head to foot. for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand is something like a kiss through a veil. Voluptuousness mingles there reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is francs." stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, d'Urfé mingles druids with them. disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize shadow and modesty. their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean better." "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know away with me." was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the CHAPTER V--PRAYER He is alone. His name is God. these treacheries. almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses to address him. "Three." patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair the heart of man. Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with "Get into bed," replied the man. "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, sincerely, and he felt it. trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was Only grant me one favor." All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, ventured to say:-- At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and At the same time, it must be confessed, nothing just like this had yet take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" "Instanter," said Gavroche. clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh