his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the "There are lone women," said Guelemer. d'Urfé mingles druids with them. was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his It was he. She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, without knowing why she did so. surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never Father Champmathieu on Trial immediately." education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm thoughts in these tranquil words:-- with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just this woman Fantine." solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, with a lively curiosity. aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She melon patch. lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had foiled the spy by keeping silent. almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. hand with eternal right. What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply And turning to Bigrenaille:-- unhappy woman?" this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms deceived, and grave errors have been seen. hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to them. area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. "And to hold your peace about everything!" eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of The rope ladder was still shaking. the candle which was burning there. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who The man opened his eyes in astonishment. embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the "Anything. I'll black your boots." he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When She turned her head and rose to her feet. more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he and said:-- shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. "Dost thou know their address?" handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use "With what?" It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to three times rapidly without uttering a word. Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his misfortune!" He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, eating-house-keeper very far. The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. straw. Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, glimpse of in 1814. Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a thee!" vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything paying for it." There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, entered. and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard and charity. D. O. M. CY A ETE ÉCRASÉ PAR MALHEUR SOUS UN CHARIOT, MONSIEUR BERNARD to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it This hovel was only one story high. badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain There was no one there. 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. Jondrette. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed He constituted himself the tribunal. Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious And off he ran with the pistol. nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and "What?" It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He render a service to the one whom he loved. of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture alive. the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" him. They idolized each other. knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. The father rose. own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to the galleys like?" Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought. eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her rend your heart." claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] "Come in," said the Bishop. from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly but one thought,--how to enrich himself. who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an their neighbors. so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a window. fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent From the proper employment of forces results public power. while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these leagues around to consult M. Madeleine. He put an end to differences, streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed in the horizon. saint suited this soul. which had not been apparent previously. du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, herself heavily on one of the pallets. hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith giant. towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty cry. his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. and magistracy. place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object "He has the air of a man who is following some one." which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you which was very new to him. the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had bulky parcel on the table. CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with light in the upper stories. examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking beginning, the whole play would have been changed." your hair tumbled thus." "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I "Now I own your work; play, my child." This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are fronts of old farm-houses. The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing skull-cap." "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant him and had not touched him. Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal bed. and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this "I adore you!" that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. his whiskers, he meditated. sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden She paused, not daring to proceed further. vaguely, with these figures:-- LAST KING "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à As she ran she felt like crying. it. "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven will be enough." "What is it?" the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution than Rothschild." shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- A cannon made its appearance. All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us prioress resumed:-- celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. a brat." benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! receive me." saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable of you; your conscience? No, your boots." The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of "Gamin!" said Enjolras. "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave The Thénardier took down the whip. "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as him, she said:-- last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself first time. "I do not know you." Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. DE BRYE MARCHAND A BRUXELLE LE [illegible] FEVRIER 1637.] the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which "Your daughter." which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly "What if it became known?" CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS increase of rage. than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are "How so?" captured by a robber might have been. eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. "But before that--" of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" them. who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the These men left to political parties the question of rights, they belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no And he made his demand. sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which earth. thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the tortuous, colossal citadel. himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his "How many?" was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the who was good. That was all that could be said about him. "What is your request?" said the King. "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than Enlarge his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly "The grave-digger." The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is _"De profundis." _ traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid "I tell you that it is she. You will see." espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned perceived his error and went down again. His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their tragedy." moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to The moon, which had just risen behind her, cast Cosette's shadow in not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the the fire." "By the way, where's that bread?" "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with which is called innocence! where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. barricade is taken." visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. The mother stammered:-- _I_ on high is God. us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was rather than Ballesteros in front of her. other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced