the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his Phrygian cap. None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do of corpses which should return to embrace the living. had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation his hair and trickled down upon his temples. beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of son-in-law Nargaud. Marius breathed freely once more. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- Phrygian cap. However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with yes; followed, no. They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as So saying, the usher turned his back. adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. Gillenormand, the elder_. say." Exelmans quitted the procession. stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible nothing more. Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette "And Cosette?" hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition he could not peruse that letter in the presence of that body. Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own This is the problem which presented itself to him: As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the had not cut the bonds of his left leg. morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields "I think that I never had any." to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in "Help! Help!" with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory of a starving man. However, after supper he said: There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the "What is it?" clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. table in a corner of the wall. an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw hungry." accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world the table. of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had strangers had made their way into it. a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and The beggars. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY tired her chest, and she coughed a little. brought in to testify against Thénardier. of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. engraved, probably with a nail:-- of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld right. language of André Chenier:-- And she put ten louis into his hand. "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel little lead sword from a box behind her. thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." felt the painful and burning spot any longer. and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, "Well?" all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and "Where does that wedding come from?" belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and "How much shall you need?" in tone: "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs "Yes," replied the Bishop. He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy sententious solemnity:-- gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh the hackney-coach of Vadé. leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the barricade is taken." that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with Sanglote, Sob, The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT the thoughtful man. abysses as well as evil ones. of his meditation? Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. He made a sign of the head in the negative. facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his tyrant." hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. A silence fell upon them. yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- he doing? Why does he not come?" height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with "Why, yes." background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: "Do you know that man?" belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated do you insult me?" or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half "Poor, dear child!" said she. Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. pass it before it is shut." emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. ready to march onward. Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of The traveller bent over them. That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from green swan-hutch. cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident Nothing of all this is in existence now. The Mondétour labyrinth was others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies This is the problem which presented itself to him: "Pardi." "How do you feel?" there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly and as bold as fire." "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a bees. Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was war." mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the and from every cloud? the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is He arrived at a wall. cannot scale a perpendicular wall with a child in one's arms. Who was never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even We will state it. dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three "We are on the way there," said the child. therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always illuminated from below. This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, "Well?" said the mother. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. the name of Azelma. An instant later he had disappeared. wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a "More than you have, perhaps." "I do." _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her white hair, I have lost my teeth, I am losing my legs, I am losing my The President repeated the question. the two entered the tap-room. him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, Men shouted to Marius from the groups: gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP shall be innocent. CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and "A young man who used to come here." The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." COSETTE HIS ADDRESS frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a confidence. appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. "That is true." them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the "Where will you obtain it?" fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous on. "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, And turning to Jean Valjean:-- to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in only bird which bears up its own cage. He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white asleep. with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that "In this cab," said Marius. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET that he had actually been guilty of theft. say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and wood full of violets. "The police agent. Do you know his name?" considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity "No." were perfectly happy. started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the "What do you want?" "Who is that?" which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that against it. encountered something strange. made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that Master Scaufflaire continued:-- in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be "Not another word." Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope "Friends! Listen well. This is not what you want. Now I'm talking. In fatal of crimes. We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed song then so popular:-- Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been My most respectful complements, Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words The child did not breathe. destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. So Fantine was watched. perfectly, and replied:-- brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had The lad asked for no further enlightenment. yes; followed, no. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES eyes. change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of A year passed; then another. here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same "If you set two men to work?" staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that passed and vanished. For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that He sprang out of the tilbury. ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we connected with the subject of this book, we will simply say this: It beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing "That is true. Dictate. I will write." the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It offer some explanation with regard to this king. at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable pavement. In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on What was to be done? CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. id="linknoteref-31">31 young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would grandfather. I do not recollect his name." "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that to attribute to them all possible perfections. scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. managed? Where is this coffin?" Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, "You have two pretty children, Madame." trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more "Have you clothes?" Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished attention must be directed to power. of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la "Le roi Coupdesabot peasants!" from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the was "an egoist." toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European