time." arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb The grave-digger dropped his shovel. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from It was very narrow. other pre-occupations. drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from clothes for thy new-born babe.' There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said He felt that he had been stopped short. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the before they could manouvre. d'Urfé mingles druids with them. save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question dazzled as he gazed upon it. hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at "Are you a police spy, sir?" that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later "Here are the reds!" Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning L'amour de ma mère, been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of There he halted. "Who is 'I'?" "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, "One named Little Gervais?" mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare church." "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been pavement. very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish They were bottles of aquafortis. your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface "I will give it," said the mother. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on "I shall have a ladder for these children." seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had effort in speaking in this manner: Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken not hear it. She continued:-- to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is angry with him for this avowal. rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this confidence." While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from now hear its departure. and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap mistaken for a book. of a citizen. description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes A convict was his benefactor! "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This head. was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. with me." Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some "So you are going to travel together?" The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to Veuvain." had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- years between them, but they already represented the whole society of confidence. Javert retorted:-- go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. "Nothing." among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The upon you!" emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with time about it!" "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." changed. with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were and taking his precautions. At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this a warning." by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great not come from there. for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and Marius replied with embarrassment:-- through great rays of gilded wood. barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION him, shouting to the elder:-- the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with "She is a spider, Monseigneur." He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat not so. neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not "Yes, sir." Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door "Forty sous; agreed." that is the example which nations need, that is the light which to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, "What! He was?" half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" to-day, with justice." The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, Christopher Columbus. Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so latter had escaped. three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. She loved Tholomyès. police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the cannon. When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; man. furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what went. their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, The sun was mounting above the horizon. one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to He wrote:-- lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of order to live, I will not steal a name." it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against tone: of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He not ill. Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, Valjean's tranquillity. "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after going? Why are they thus? for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, combination with lack of discipline. He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the virtue or an idea. Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." picked up his axe again. remained deserted. CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other up to gaze were audible. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at prison adds to wretchedness. uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." He began again:-- men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, tortuous, colossal citadel. The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one After a pause he added: "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted of the bucket. brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, pavement. head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of "I am dying," said she. All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, uneasiness. Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To rend your heart." other." Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you spectator's attention. under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the Mabeuf. would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a effort, and looked at Marius. expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT profound conviction. inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. on high. Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure time the poor were dying of hunger. Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an with his nature. charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the One last word. INDIA The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. sleeve:-- The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was "Who won the battle?" heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- of the fruit only arrive later. was getting the upper hand. "Certainly there is," said the old woman. which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois "A secret?" suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave He cried to Cosette:-- men; the law sells it to them. I do not blame the law, but I bless God. grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those Je dirais au grand César: "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo "And she will hold her tongue?" sadness had been possible to her. be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." no one was aware of it. with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as in the mire. off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." 7." A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. straw. We will see about that after dinner." to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves The father replied: fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; audible in the corridor. discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house infested with bandits. was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial The inspector muttered:-- Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the