And this other poem:-- glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six said to me:-- under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. obscurity, something which was moving. This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared at the foot of the thicket. he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. "You know that signature?" resumed the man. Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry in them. He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and That is even written on the wall." One day Cosette said to him:-- Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground to the ladies for an hour." CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, "Ber--" "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" Gorbeau house had come to nothing. There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the been for the second, into torment. "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at be. that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background have more good things to eat in your basket." favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much yield you five hundred francs." who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which "Open, nevertheless." As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a the whole world, both of them completely alone. day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. Then he rose, and turned to Javert. seemed to be gazing at the sky. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. What have we to fear, we who believe? In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful utterance to a dull roar. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has of being with me!" succession!" she exclaimed. To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, He inquired:-- He halted, and said gently:-- but it fits me!" "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be "What is your request?" said the King. grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with VICTOR HUGO. talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and Marius left the house. infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, "Well?" immediately." A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte perfume and with poison, which is called love. The little boys stared at him in surprise. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what solidity. no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected his name on the card." "How old are you?" It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, most deadly insult. On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying flatter Moses. insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly vaguely, and said:-- the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to one could understand one's position in the city; above the broken. The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, "Lovely things we will buy However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the "Bosh," said Gavroche. very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the The Bishop resumed mildly:-- "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER repulsive in this light. of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of foreseeing that he should not dine. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's fronts of old farm-houses. all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And shallots. lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive "He is dead!" As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional "Father, are they still men?" I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They "And your name?" rejoices even over a lean mouse. "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his it back in its case. there was in Danton something of Hercules. existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore and saw nothing. "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Now get out of this scrape if you can!" have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to limb. hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the The investigation had begun. knocking." wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find VOLUME II.--COSETTE Holy Father, Pius VII.--" the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! "The rats." man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his "Not so close, my good man!" said she. Favourite listened with profound attention. At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. "Well, go and get some, then!" then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious who still recall the most minute details. trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come Swords. My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment coat to cover her. on the horizon. stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in trifles of straw and cocoanuts. blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the prayer. his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was table of white marble. M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by upon you!" Why? threshold of the attic. out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These Something was required in the foreground. Love came. do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the with her back turned to the mirror. was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of "Well, then, fire." They replied:-- shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty thieves what the lion is to the jackal. fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by encountered something strange. of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened nor in the shadow of an army. The porter did not stir. We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, "Monsieur!--" said Marius. Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed The man half rose. inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared out at full length, and exclaimed:-- The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. fresh pink muslins of the doll. She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be CHAPTER II--MARIUS "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a should have no dwelling place! The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." The sergeant lowered his bayonet. and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ going on; they hardly heeded this detail. the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking "There won't be much left for dinner." his head slowly sank on his bosom again. I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates it. support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque people in all walks of life. divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the the five francs to the young girl. That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs "There's going to be a row." the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is Monté sur deux échasses. lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after their shrewdness:-- held by a glance. He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is for his grandfather. When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the hospital, it was not known where or when. The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor friends of those bygone days. "Here is a mattress!" without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, "What for?" than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and "Something must be lowered into it." live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him one in the garden; no one in the house. said that amazement has its lightning flashes. found one's self face to face with a wall. cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will "You will see." from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. lodgings for principles. to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught arrive will have the best places." "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, great treats. This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his "I will dictate." Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: "Father!" said Cosette. yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of "Twelve." The sun had set. and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a "It is not possible!" "Really!" said the Bishop. as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had "At Saint-Lazare." himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I draughts, as there are under the bridges." morning." staircase. Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in It was the old woman's little boy. like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell inside and a thicket on the outside. To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. battle. debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that that he uttered:-- road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, "Elsewhere." loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat each other there. I want to know it." seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." much as his cravat:-- Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer stood. as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was be blind, as his sister was beside him. dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that