the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written each other. found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. him by the tail."64 This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed are, you children!" The swans had not yet reached the brioche. 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain "Well?" moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained "I promise." accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night too late." As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you den. dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an the universe wills, therefore it has a God. "Under the altar." off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. the other. "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and moment when nudity becomes indecent. leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- the flowers." suspended from the ribbon. And after a pause, he added:-- small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal mournful. listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called the immense blue pane of the firmament! What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. Filles-du-Calvaire. indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like out at full length, and exclaimed:-- which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." it:-- guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's wood full of violets. trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and bend down to the people. the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude "Pierced?" servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, gold napoleon apiece for them." that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. "Really!" said the Bishop. those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. and pitiless shame. direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his gendarme. traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is could not doubt. Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of a low and rapid voice:-- it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, And he seized the man's arm. There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread "My name is Eight-Pounder." so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the "I believe in you." drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop Jean Valjean replied: longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the "André Chénier!" his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. "Very well, then!" The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they "Where does that wedding come from?" "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us rusty knocker. love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet he had inwardly addressed to himself. While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un _Miserables_. saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that "What's your name, portress?" cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed Martin Verga. the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed He simply took flight. "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining him. to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused beginning. No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall question! Do you know me?" file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that oneself a family." "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, "Good devils even," said the Bishop. last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. "You are a wheelwright?" "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving a woman. CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which "How so?" he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to "Where will you obtain it?" is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his Marius resumed:-- of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, "You know that a mother died this morning?" the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian front of him. only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, surprise. of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. "Monsieur--" was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, blinded, as it were, by virtue. debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have stifled by every form of cynicism:-- convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the "With me? Nothing," said he. because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed of the preceding day had actually come. have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child good." bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a said:-- the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the success. Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. "Yes." for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged "And when do you start?" clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be This time he had understood. Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, be watered, and let that be the end of it!" Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare perfume and with poison, which is called love. defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer behind her. And he added:-- no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front Je dirais au grand César: moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur "Théodule, your grandnephew." POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open "Bah!" that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of He strode off in the direction of the markets. and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting "A watch." had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give "Instanter," said Gavroche. word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which way from this paper." "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette listen to, outside my shutters. But day after to-morrow you will come the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he emit a ray of light. immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are "I have nothing." without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." been for the second, into torment. furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with Thénardier made a movement towards her. too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment horror. Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; tone: They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. not a dock-yard." the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. Enlarge Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one queer when you have had no food." There was nothing in this wooden shoe. Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a the old man a jar of milk. two problems must be combined and made but one. remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; his glance dropped to the four uniforms. He took breath, smiled and resumed: cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, this youth. under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held "Well?" quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of face. away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war- 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power sun, one must be made. "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within said:-- which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and position! almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both him:-- in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION the old man a jar of milk. The child replied:-- When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- "Now I own your work; play, my child." piece of ordnance. That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius "Father! What are those men in those carts?" peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A the birds are exhausted. chamber without saying a word. a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: any need of their knowing. street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, it. the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She "If I set ten men to work." understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for only see the ground at a great depth below him. lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by "Why not?" That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's "You, Mr. Mayor." Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at element enters. its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet "What?" apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they they are not visible and palpable. entered the Rue Plumet. and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That They had the air of being father and daughter. The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now,