furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, "It is the Saturnalia." humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. were two cheerful sounds. the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it threatens our soul." liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, There was no reply. his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, "My colleague," said the man. He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace but a carefully folded paper. would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its morning?" It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING maid, continued to say: "My people." many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection on high. foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of voice:-- some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat "Yes, and a hand stopping it." therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which table. Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, all that is immaculate and inaccessible. Alas! what if the Jungfrau were As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance before they could manouvre. He condemned it to his hatred. The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little infirmary. be a hundred. maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. made like that just at present.'" "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had A moment later she resumed:-- boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. time." She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance This was the man for whom Marius was searching. abyss of Eden had yawned once more. just as I know your name." The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. men, and smoke. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop nothing was lacking. one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another _The Mother_. How is that, my child? interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie dead!" men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes "The eldest." Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each diligence!" man, a sister of the former, no doubt. But when the invariable habit of He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. yield you five hundred francs." presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of "Ah, come! Are there no such things as pewter forks and spoons?" watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of Frontispiece Volume One rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but Snatched up a Paving Stone Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has confidence. revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the "One hundred francs!" Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists trip was too hard for them, he went alone. "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." alluding to the landing at Cannes. vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. take Marius' place. very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, Marius' brow grew more and more severe: "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, "That it is very cold?" vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." quarters. defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards Paris, would have been one of these men. repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, who she was. himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. Marius found himself alone. thieves had given him. one in the town had heard hitherto:-- Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? amicable. A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.