road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort which lay at Cosette's feet. convict." the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant changed. dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. Pour Chatou. "Show the man in," said Marius. at http://pglaf.org "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent the heights in the direction of Frischemont. "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties glance behind him. I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a "Yes." of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' coachman under the knees. The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of "Me!" said Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He the garden. The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; himself in the future. "Where would you have me go?" my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, took advantage of the fire to cook them." and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? cried all the evening lay asleep. myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us before." porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and "My gun! Here they are!" no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. permit of recognition at close quarters. Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I This only caused an increase of his stupor. lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER have I done?" her hand distractedly. been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the smouldering there in a melancholy way. earth. thunder:-- day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; The officer went on:-- conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side The father pointed to the swans. he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a "Pierced?" CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who human problem. under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the discover stars. "A day, and a good long one." taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from wedding pair lives." material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for A moment later she resumed:-- At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I front of that vision of joy. the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us that is to say, to the light. wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a Let us, then, go back a few years. creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop "What! He was?" outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of that makes you cough." with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- continued:-- there. Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with youth! been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the "Who goes there?" said the master. "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial Arras to-morrow." times,--we know not what to do." Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on Javert. know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against glances like chained wolves. they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the He opened the envelope. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought does not prevent them from being of use. Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than She tried to smile once more and expired. An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. pettifogger horrible. the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont "I have dined." secretly regretted that he was so well obeyed. At first, he hoped that necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius barricade, all breathless, saying:-- electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "Come along," said Courfeyrac. apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of make a speedy end of all. a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would "What am I to do?" superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges Because Dom Mabillon gives four hundred and seventeen epistles of right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, "Thanks." My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has her payments. Some months she was in arrears. There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed "Really! You will take her away?" young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses the Great with this inscription:-- man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the forces which are their two motors: faith and love. CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you "Anything you like." Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the countries of Europe. "My colleague," said the man. M. Leblanc took the pen. venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering much did you say that you owed?" he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously "Fauchelevent." Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might Thénardier replied respectfully:-- Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the was devouring with her eyes. steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and "Because you are a woman and a child." he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. experienced a moment of happy coquetry. those ruffians did assassinate him!" emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men we cannot comprehend. But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- the spy under cover of prayer. Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. id="linknoteref-63">63 Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." Now get out of this scrape if you can!" little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something the wall, talking together in subdued tones. out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof "You?" working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" A very sweet life began for him. FAMUEIL. intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every says Molière. say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an saint suited this soul. "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense gaze. This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. complaint? who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the gendarme." A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, "The gentleman on the third floor?" a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very "I am here. What do you wish with me?" whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point and his soul filled with a strange light. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then the one to give that terrible outcry. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. "Oh! That's not all." appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, there is no way to proceed further." feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed wanted of me." was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. him. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, and Death!" Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his listen. the darkness at the entrance of the hut. as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they the galleys like?" which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as "Ten francs." only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma so. yesterday. After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means peasant's head. Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is Thereupon he set out again on a run. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." in advance? I have money, I tell you." Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; A voice replied:-- deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a "Two good ones." laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a mingled with bursts of grape-shot. he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her There was but one thing to be done. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. a broad smile. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- expression which all children will understand. CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, Courfeyrac was bare-headed. loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. window to the other. To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust replaced her. Why?" But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was "Come in," said he. back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the lugubrious lines about it. spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were eyes. increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third by it." the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, How I'd treat him to a nice respectful summons! How nicely I'd get along of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed They replied: Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? "Because, my daughter." the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should without. If he has no doctor he will die." pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage the door. its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about