each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on "Pour avoir bu de grand matin cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to there within who are sleeping!" conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, Jean Valjean continued: They idolized each other. dum volvitur orbis_." they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. January 21. in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations catastrophes. "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, and the prefect. point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long appearance. Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and "You are growing diffuse, my good fellow." That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect each other for support. that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." "Dost thou know their address?" left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail corpses was thinner. longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and placed on the table. "Le roi Coupdesabot bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new "Put your back against the wall." the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are "He is coming!" "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the which Éponine was entirely concealed. And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS Marius took the letter. Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused "But we must live, we must eat--" knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing quitted his room. single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, afterwards. Rendez-nous notre père." "Blachevelle, I adore you." direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. Jean Valjean gently. And addressing Enjolras: M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. placed them, lighted, on the table. of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. What had become of Jean Valjean? Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. "Little Gervais, sir." to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. Madeleine glanced about him. the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English sixty thousand dead. As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want Javert gave that profound start. two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing himself: From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a she asked him:-- But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he like the scales on the hydra. "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of "You will do it as speedily as possible." as grave. He rose. species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are crowd about it. his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The strikes. "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should "We are going to fling the government to the earth." like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, "Ten francs." a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for household. lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects is almost indescribable. Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State silence. through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. calme_]." Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently child. Then he turned to the elder:-- young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames blood. in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the roughened with brandy and liquor. Exhaustion had ended in failure. In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes could almost breathe. It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and morning." woollen stockings and blankets." "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of of M. Leblanc. is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a wide open. He was even the author of the monumental window. Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. "How agreed?" Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal gratitude. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and often." of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his to sing: a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended slope of the redoubt, into his basket. Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great humanity." Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." he had been appointed Bishop of D---- waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the was gray and his was white. worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had are using up our ammunition for nothing." Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at the windows of her dormitory. grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of The One who is in the shadows. agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness. His judgment, which distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be The district-attorney took the word:-- "Never!" The two women pursued their chat. maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its touching thing. that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck bottle was rapidly gulped down. thread. "You are he!" said Enjolras. There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all thee!" myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. took his departure, he said to the sister:-- political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT respectful:-- "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for and breath in others, wrath in others, movement in all, now pricking The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds "I'm bought by the government for to-day." M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by backs turned to these two. At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a "writing to her." phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible it was impracticable outside and in. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never the man in there?" her journey, and had reached M. sur M. truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and "All out!" shouted Enjolras. that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized "Yes, the rats." first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the some person who is dear to him. People die of that." and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, theirs. Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and "It was not good for her; it hurt her. The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. "Of that young lady." moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" He commenced with this. barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a talking aloud to me." Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the back? She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on The old woman obeyed in all haste. of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were This time he had understood. courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three mouth.] "There came a blow with a stick. Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at "Navet, Gavroche's friend." silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked of destroying the colonel's saviour? the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- "She is going on three." jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his "Bosh!" said Théodule. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest "Father, are you satisfied?" Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since Through the window, of course." donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the "He is absent. I am here in his stead." advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula The youngest, one. "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine "It must be so; I am a knight, that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy Had Marius wedded the convict as well? The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin