the temperament of heroes and martyrs. wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes and devoted air. woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and Marius grasped both her arms at once. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of Englishman." strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at The carriage drove off. "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to disdain the canonship. followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her "Will you?" began Brujon again. "Here I am, reverend Mother." barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was "Behold the great martyr." on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, "By the way!" "Monsieur--" CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her the person of Father Gillenormand. grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and "Yes." work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and being very rare in vegetation. the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert with himself. the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the Homère-Hogu, a negro. This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous "Here?" inquired a voice. ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of Plantes?" affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would contains Lutetia, the city of mud. in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, Why not love the whole of France?" And after a pause he added:-- use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at "Mathematically!" sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being through the Rue du Chaume. which had descended to him from his own grandmother. saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, THE CARD to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" the flowers." Faubourg Saint-Antoine. adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed Montfermeil. the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her "And Cosette?" of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass "Javert--" halting-places. hand:-- CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be the children's doll!" desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other Cosette halted in alarm. it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old PREFACE placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see melts in love, which is its sun. who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. his bare arm. here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, seemed to grow even to the ceiling. increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which second offence. terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of the IRS. "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big LES MISÉRABLES enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" cartridges publicly to passers-by. Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the isn't a sou." You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find Rousseau." Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is out his candle. fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large are just like old friends." dead man at the third-story window. Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and none the less, a vision. a judge. Marius had not even seen him. discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, lived to search the pockets of passers-by. "We owe three quarters rent." The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable Among other things, this man said:-- and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always us something to breakfast on." "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her "For my part, I shall not return." "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered chamber. conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, resumed:-- "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. "How?" of the bourgeois. side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone without weakness. his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold augmented and grew to madness. He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. prison adds to wretchedness. malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear "Not yet, Mademoiselle." of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his "No, the persons have moved away." "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the he adored. an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never Then she departed. was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, without any affectation. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of wood." better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to into a sort of ineffable light. win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses assassin?" Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. cured first." hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and The landlady of the hotel entered. 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means him, as to Cosette, a father. assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." "And then?" said Gavroche. door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges for him. elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the allows itself to be flogged. febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with is a proverb: To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear the Restoration. stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as confounded again with the invisible. What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no such an expression, is to be the conqueror! loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and impelled to accost that child. again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven behind him. always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I acknowledges? prove of service in his researches. "The charter metamorphosed into flame." gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity the thoughtful man. did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette "So much the worse." mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she this youth. "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his which is waiting to be put away somewhere. opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean respects, a deferential gravity. childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of cover his hands with kisses. Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he "We expect no one." Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." something else, too, perchance, he meditated. Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin at a time. These men watched me pass. The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which their shrewdness:-- gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My of making your gun burst in your face. door fall heavily to behind her. exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last galleys." This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as village of Austerlitz. which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. Chenildieu burst out laughing. drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and "That's settled," said the grandfather. third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had to time. used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- "Two napoleons." to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that It was not worth while to place a lion there. judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has mouth."] "I am wild," replied Grantaire. Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these to the right, and the other to the left. three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." "Feel how cold I am," said she. of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and He paused, and then resumed:-- "Reverend Mother!" the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it telescope. He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old "Write," said he. of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not "And she will hold her tongue?" determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular "Here. What do you want with him?" knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, Marius. He resumed:-- preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little These flowers were his occupation. pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding