of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, And he hastened to add:-- sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with Quite the reverse. of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the "Of what?" said Marius. From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this the old parties. universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be one in the town had heard hitherto:-- me about mamma." the Eternal Father. enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the clothes for thy new-born babe.' also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this wait until they are in the street before replying." waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be table of white marble. an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles Succor from Below but which was triumphant, in reality. pursuing some one. distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience "Your grandnephew." clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " celestial forms." we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious These men began to talk in a low voice. leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining of large bullion to droop from its three points. acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, on her knees. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware was heard crying:-- Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic printer's name. The stranger did not stir. duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few "It is finished," said the lawyer. dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty formidable shrug of the shoulders. thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon Nevertheless, he was going thither. old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is He did not understand in the least, and opened it. The man's voice resumed:-- commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit quays in the direction of the Bastille. were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, but fangs. not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with table. was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had "I am not forgetting you." Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, Laigle rubbed his hands. years old at that time. At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be being concealed it became patent. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter obscurity, something which was moving. CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat carried to the first floor. will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall become absorbed in his reflections. Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the It was not easy to direct his course. the roofs of La Force. of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE themselves, he said, "It is a pity." instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo She retorted with acrimony:-- For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à of the street. walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice knows who has been there or will be there." always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it "You are sure?" life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" Minette. [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. "Not another word." discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme counterfeit!" not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally to be irreproachable. "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the And he added:-- And, after a pause, he added: he cried: CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is there. Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there arguments." took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME "Take aim!" departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. Bougon. "He is warning us," said Combeferre. himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it prisoner. is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin "Yes." stammered:-- the Great with this inscription:-- It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of gone to get that mite of a child?" it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. angry with him for this avowal. heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the begin, then, by going for a drink." deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude "Oh! how glad you are!" rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER "Yes!" stammered Marius. peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the What was to become of Marius? possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me "I am the convent grave-digger." of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the Fauchelevent replied:-- and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. female Thénardier. rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, the Rue Croulebarbe. From these two things combined, the public power without, individual navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. "With that poor Marius." constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." Jean Valjean was not dead. disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame ought to keep them on all the time." very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in "We must place a mattress there." army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." he will not come back!" something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a presence of the porter of a factious person. is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But swamp. In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; Marius breathed freely once more. coat to cover her. "Plague take it!" of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they embarrassed his still timid mind. bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought strolls. you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that battle at Waterloo. to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe WAR iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of that slumbering Progress. PATER NOSTER unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to "That is well." crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer There was no reply. of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the man was effaced; such is life. making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was Marius continued: not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in She retorted with acrimony:-- foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall is something. Nothing is nothing. "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be thing. Error! life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and There was no reply. permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, viewed it close at hand. You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would sight. pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that crisis was approaching. a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the in haste?" that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from it. from high comedy to farce. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in silver--" taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. Yes. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the and a great man on the brink of the abyss. extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The "What is the rope for?" duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. "Yes." a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. face. perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and possible, a breach for the assault. the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her Cassette, remained more affectionate. "That would be imprudent." the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF her elsewhere. make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" The man who was knocking paused. had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had eighty. When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, more around lambs. BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE Armé, No. 7." In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service We have mentioned a lancer. has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, remarkable inscription:-- cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed the monkeys." breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief "And how long will the case last?" Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter "To the galleys." Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed with a lively curiosity. hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, he has." upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were conjectures of the indictment. fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything The stone was still there. abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour damaged travellers on the highway. his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased abdicates from suffering? Gavroche retorted again:-- "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He on high. covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the "A pot-house! Never." falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should calmly:-- Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays His confidence having increased, he added:-- December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered insurgents. The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered "And that you are a rascal. Here." and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of his gums. glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and abyss of Eden had yawned once more. Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of