hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. docket. entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the The master's face appeared. and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty "Climb up that flue." Language: English "We haven't the time." personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" only in the wine-shops, but in the street. "The handcuffs!" he shouted. And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman She loved Tholomyès. The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had "And what does this man say?" that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. "Yes." these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor time." "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so found one's self face to face with a wall. out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and The Fall "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert face. Enlarge a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe This began the loss of the battle. accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. "however, let it go!" And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because "I will close it again." under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the "You are sure?" formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that it. "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is thought. your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." "Father!" cried Marius. "Why not?" CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this to himself that this monster existed. deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be earth. One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for "I get down here," said the man. "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. herself once more on her chair. For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as into a sort of ineffable light. "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the meagre income which had survived no one knew how. mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister The Thénardier took down the whip. a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my CHAPTER X--DAWN A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open Rue de l'Homme Armé; he was so deeply absorbed that he mistook the door well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no perfectly, and replied:-- "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him with red calico. At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the anarchy. "Yes." at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." He answered:-- Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where "Look at the happiness of others." had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. pettifogging, I beg of you." cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist their trousers. In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments one feels that one is falling? diligence!" thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole "Only fasten the rope to the wall." threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be happiness within, results social prosperity. "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" "Neither do I." conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. "You will see." and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: What had become of Jean Valjean? It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE expressive whirl. and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of better." spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the "I am not hungry any more," said the child. prevent eternity. forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside not sorry. His revery gradually became terrible. and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what Sometimes even several of them at a time. human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the Enlarge She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge belong to every one." feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. New Building, but that he was still in great danger. apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, objectless promenades of the dreamer. said. politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room _winter salon_. brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good from the populace, passed with great noise. man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were "You?" thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and mingled with some hesitation. It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out monasticism. to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the of dying. him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid placed on the table. the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one "What is your name?" fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a which is waiting to be put away somewhere. politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at them. He resumed with solemnity:-- had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with "The slab which closes the vault?" The Fall incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and alive. the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings his wants. "Really!" said the Bishop. The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a "Keep on your masks," said Javert. Éponine made a final effort. painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole door of a house open, and I entered. sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a only see the ground at a great depth below him. by passion. are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the "Yes." frown. "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons "Into the vault." About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more descent of the sewer. heroes who win renown. same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the "Where do you live, little one?" the peasants, who were staring at him. by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and Which was he to take? and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise and threw them at the men. Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a "What! There is not room for one more?" CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. and from every cloud? This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, breast. occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, been summoned." the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean "Certainly, sir." invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more point. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a passion. His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by few inarticulate oaths. of Cavalry, a royalist who has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while at most. Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse. Chassez across. bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes turned out in default of payment. seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing thunder:-- Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been injuries to dispense each day. If she had not had Cosette, it is certain sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits Fantine's despairing supplications. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to sentiments. me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he at night. her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six They pray. Red Hot Chisel know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The "I am your father." Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch are white with powder.] Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, to chambers of torture filled the hovel. quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in meeting on the Jungfrau. the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, other pre-occupations. The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you "Well, since there is no other means." which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring That said, he totally forgot the lancer. always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible friends of those bygone days. lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, cart's place to protect him. baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and than Jean Valjean. and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century quays in the direction of the Bastille. had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed "He is dead." "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm were written:-- from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. "Alone?" She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of "Where does this diligence run?" linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest Marius:-- Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. "Don't approach!" she cried. "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." Malta. considering it under all its aspects. We have just seen him at Montfermeil. "Reverend Mother?" arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the He redoubled his pace. wished to caress and thank it. The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, was not furnished; there was not even a chair. two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have grand-uncle. will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side twelve. she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. straw. like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. "I am the one to pay!" souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans,