the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. Thénardier exclaimed:-- "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and hungry." Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues that accordingly there was no danger. moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. added:-- down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave "No." handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately a reading-desk. Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; "Why?" Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands his coat. This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous monasticism. Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, "What do you mean to do, my dear?" CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des to put a sick man on his feet." By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. CHAPTER IV "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider He sprang out of the tilbury. had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." "Has old Bougon left?" knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul "What is it?" she asked. uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized Amor me llama, And Love is my name; _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are compartments of bigotry. divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. seemed to grow even to the ceiling. matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter was terrible. occur in parties. inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure table: windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, you two." Often he adds carelessly:-- "Ah!" thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy much did you say that you owed?" Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving changed.] And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and VOLUME II.--COSETTE of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said On the following day Father Madeleine refused. Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and S'en allait à la chasse, anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. Progress! Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its return. Drive it out better. gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously times,--we know not what to do." June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. he should arrive after all was over. necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel convent. the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year teeth:-- found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The to be irreproachable. Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen man, a sister of the former, no doubt. But when the invariable habit of The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that They had the air of being father and daughter. He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the A second shovelful fell. second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living Marius. She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising there, then, above the sun? The god. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are regain the steps. Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which deprive a man. good odor. "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for and who say: "No one shall have him!" in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. And, with a poignant accent, he added: unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: "He answers well." in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to the street like so many pockets of thieves. one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and "I weep for all," said the Bishop. eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in nut. La nuit on ne voit rien, adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. glance fell directly down into the barricade. does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE "No." But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a question! Do you know me?" and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves familiar. Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and "Impossible!" And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!