confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen address, indeed!" him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. "There's a dog." accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all young. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't "I will obey." connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask he would have expired with grief. sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his to hate the stranger. "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds in hand, lighted them. chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs done." Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied She loved Tholomyès. 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme with an air of reproach. M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this "There is enough food there for twenty." door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." "The Petit-Picpus convent." then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from death ought to be a masterpiece. "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day Then he addressed the audience:-- fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we first is dark, the second is black. It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in The mattress now hung by one thread only. could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What followed. On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother beginning. there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored touches as convicts in the galleys. "Granted," said Javert. Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he Cosette halted in alarm. the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on of the clouds of heaven. "Enter my wine-shop." WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 replied:-- being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow Cosette's side. made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed she pursued triumphantly:-- of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but What was to become of Marius? the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" their trousers. spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority." tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ The grave voice began again:-- "I thought he was buckled." compliments. What is the meaning of this?" That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: visions mingle with his dreams. "What, really? You are sure?" night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel such a pitiful fool as that!" not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the his horse having tumbled down. It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human teeth. transparent. exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied farce." mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this Gavroche retorted again:-- and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my "My colleague," said the man. He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been little. "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life "Where are you going, then?" projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years "They are mice." twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of garden and we are done for." At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some paper folded in four. in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost wished to retain her features for eternity. ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A flowers before man cut stones. the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " "Yes." entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But "Listen, Théodule." indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and accomplished by a simple elevation of level. "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim "Agreed." mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the Rendez-nous notre père." you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is This was the man for whom Marius was searching. yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." fault has passed." A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. sky." He replied in a low voice:-- drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in passed. _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, D----, Dec. 16, 18--. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and "Where do you come from?" "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." less steep. Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of M. Leblanc:-- who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had Marat. This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze whom he met. me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the to me,"_ replied the Bishop. distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself A few words more. At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. below. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE affected airs of a flattered monster. quarters. in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. inscription:-- through the Rue du Chaume. As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre Mont-Saint-Jean. was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley building. that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his room. Immediately." funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense white between. Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most "No." Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward title of either colonel or baron. on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, alias Deux-Milliards." rattling of this sheet of paper. sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had reserve. wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will "Where?" interpolated the wheelwright. dead corpse. "You are sure?" Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. within him. That heaven was his conscience. displace the bar and slip into the garden. Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to said that amazement has its lightning flashes. slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, CHAPTER I for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of who is in labor." Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the you live now?" than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making "What then? Finish." Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they else. white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to finger on this compartment and said:-- the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, him with a gloomy air. Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should "What then?" smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all "Come, now! And my mother?" The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she You must not be egoists." more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is us." "Who is it?" urchin administered to it a fillip. passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will thinker than appeared to view. "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, "That is good." his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil contained the following lines:-- a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue him. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to from the furrow, and disease from the stream. the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that listen to, outside my shutters. But day after to-morrow you will come the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I up in one corner. "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. same! But how do you come here?" The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, breeze blew in the cage of these doves. it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The "Well?" were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in star. in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, in it at her ease. "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he "You love me, then?" did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know smiling ambush. One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. years between them, but they already represented the whole society of point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and had become unrecognizable. instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months was transfigured into Christ. "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. entered the Rue Plumet. to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the word. In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that visible. Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end They began to wander aimlessly through the streets.