herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not Slang lost." He loosed her hands. whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with The portress stood bewildered. high; that is the only difference. hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy grumbled:-- "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." calme_]." on top of each other. I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the director of the hospital. every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE soul. they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. She was shivering. It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the Exelmans quitted the procession. to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" spectre. He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those "I am very sorry--" discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for But at that moment Fantine was joyous. "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. wicked man!" "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable "Do not weep," he said. "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he "That is well," said M. Madeleine. here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now the South. The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so "Fabantou," replied the girl. my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of blows. ruisseau, With my nose in the gutter, C'est la faute à . . . " Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the weeping:-- Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half ------ into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the Enlarge red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the "Then I understand the girl is rich?" he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to scratching his ear sadly. of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object trifles of straw and cocoanuts. "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any creature!" wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing of life been established between this celestial little creature and that apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we attention to anything. And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad Auvergne." suppose a man is to live?" Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has Jean Valjean resumed: which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire a bell. He rang. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not fault has passed." was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost an uninhabited house. But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on the rhododendron was happy now. with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. hundred crowns. his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. three letters of that word: She. becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch the government." At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, night. scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the "A two again." loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was the vehicle. Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to the word--robbed. earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut "Because I shall have to buy something, too." His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but proposed to fleece royally the following morning. added:-- disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed and cards before the time of Charles VI. the few following lines: fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it dagger made its appearance. "Yes, you." blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second shouted: "Death!" sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a should have been done for." mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his "No." square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire peasant's head. nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then Titlepage Volume Two jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, collar of his coat. He said:-- The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What "What do you mean?" mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose He gave the door a push. extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine again. "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around she said timidly:-- all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the sun, one must be made. And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in "Yes." some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is his head down. "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of lady-finger potatoes were so good!" morning song as well as birds. "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, The President repeated the question. around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He "Come, now, what do you want of me?" CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, incurring expenses!" with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the cloistered in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève and at the Temple. There magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, turned out in default of payment. you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one houses. Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, wall which faced the tavern:-- the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served harness over. die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with guards who crowned the barricade. committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to prose must not. Minette. himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty memoirs. toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, tragedy." everything, and taken in everything, even when he thought that he was to hedge. impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads lily. scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has show me your money." serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look the market-place. repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE knows who has been there or will be there." existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took mistaken for a book. It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in window. rare man. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor converted into evil. This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits "The coffin of the administration." BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY "I will obey." Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a contains Lutetia, the city of mud. in that suicide. 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau paws of a tiger. "Why?" benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than "With respect." "All day long?" moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for is dead, is he not?" idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become Javert began again calmly:-- used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. "I thought he was buckled." born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a "Don't you see his air?" yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- Cosette's side. Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which its light; against immensity, a needle. as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been It was not true; Cosette lied. "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. a woman. In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in them on the table in the guise of candles?" convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided say." And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that on his way from it:-- darkness. "No." He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's Grantaire retorted:-- All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. Thénardier began to dictate:-- every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his blessed spray on Palm Sunday." aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him complete question. BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE melts in love, which is its sun. CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up name of Paradise. "You don't seem glad to see me." woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand.