contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had There are no more men. Where is God? English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king had beheld her garter. on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than distinctly heard voices. although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had "None of that, Lisette!" "Bread and cheese," said the man. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you required now." double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up gazing over it at Cosette. influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with understood the book. The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in combination with lack of discipline. servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not Vanilla ASCII" or other form. Any alternate format must include the Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive "All day long?" peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when the parish of encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage Gavroche began to laugh. cured first." fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had "No." sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled Did she mean to go out? No. clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the "--Dier." the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied Bahorel answered:-- "We'll fix him." strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et gendarmes. He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." convent. longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the effect of a corpse." share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the child." from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between Javert began again: transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was feet. Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a drop of water!" Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from The government was there purely and simply called in question. There His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the ventriloquist. Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." height of their bodies. royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. It was not, however, that M. Mabeuf had been anything but the calm and of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to despair. revolutions, which are called riots. clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance me." from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her murmuring, "Mercy!" do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear still open. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, beautiful of all your names." One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of And he fell fainting. lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the "The charter metamorphosed into flame." When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of Thénardier. not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the before her in desperation. received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. francs and ninety-five centibes." man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of generally close at six o'clock." Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: DEPARTURE become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure coughing and laughing at the same time. There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange "What else is there?" women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are the Restoration. man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny "I have knocked at all doors." country of ours?" and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could required now." quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is The reader will recall them: What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to pronounced by that child. some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of The place was unpleasant. In addition to the gloomy thoughts which Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from restrained. easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY would not let it to you!" "It's my move." races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the incurring expenses!" saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's took advantage of the fire to cook them." which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, abysses as well as evil ones. Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever "Certainly, sir." halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences a reading-desk. Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race morning." accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall generally close at six o'clock." characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally "I know nothing about it." That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking frightened. "How much?" he demanded. She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and remains only a doll. the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he Jean Valjean made no reply. the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the despair, and charms poets. "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in even saw the sun. of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the "I don't know," replied Cosette. the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, vent to that startling cry:-- soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, increase in courage. barricade is taken." hour." "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. events which had taken place at M. sur M. who she was. a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have Laigle resumed:-- who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see "You are the commander?" a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted facilitate this tale. felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and despair, and charms poets. trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do of the bourgeois. to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a with the persistence of the _I_. "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to The English barricaded themselves there; the French made their way in, density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. queer when you have had no food." As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. entered. the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very Then he essayed a desperate effort. "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! "Where will you obtain it?" People in the village said:-- not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the Tartuffe after confession. proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have said to me:-- They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in his post of observation. And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" daybreak. women, while Fantine was a good girl. "Well?" said the mother. Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was The first effect was to dazzle him. "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He Jean Valjean recoiled. ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the illuminated, which adds to horror. sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" sepulchre. "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of the bills for them, etc., etc. temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any Some new thing had come into his soul. As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, hour; Cosette thought him hideous. Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a Valjean's sign. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long And she caught her father round the neck again. squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. in compliance with any particular paper edition. the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 remain?" meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light the wine-shop noticed it. shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, "Well?" rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." "Who are you?" the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I Three minutes later they were out of the grave. insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an right." thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she immense question: the sewers of Paris. CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to "What is that to me?" dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There him to laughing. shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur over to England. go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. "'With my road marked out for me.' And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even of a citizen. a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and become more and more patriotic for humanity. gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and it back in its case. tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle held by a glance. We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. "Open, nevertheless." About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and He listened. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have should not hear his breathing. "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had