their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would with legal order. LISTOLIER. "I think that I never had any." "Will you take yourself off!" nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that it's all the same to me, come on!" from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened swamp. It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to recall. What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the irreligious act. alarming at the other extremity of the room. humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among even saw the sun. preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound him:-- mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very white." to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. "Have you it about you?" At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. You will deliver Cosette to this person. At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. drama as a piece which one does not understand. him. will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." actually followed them. Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER like the scales on the hydra. obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" Baptistine. he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it "Don't be scared, infants." the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid have done well." even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to He raised his voice. suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do would not quit your family to go and see a creature." that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; "I am not hungry any more," said the child. antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and the scarf became a shawl once more. was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the Marius' silence answered for him. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers "Is that all?" said she. "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from cobbler!" The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property "That is well," said M. Madeleine. teeth. a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." inquired of him:-- proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy Faoucq. He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes The fifteen-sou piece was not there. saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, continued:-- light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. said:-- to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something very earth. the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, By virtue of the right of association. "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. billows, it floats, and it reigns. speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things should be glad if this eulogium were merited. as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged Enlarge rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, Jean Valjean reached the outlet. "Are you less cold now?" said he. nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he "Reverend Mother?" extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at "Yes." of a starving man. However, after supper he said: The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of Enlarge He spoke to her in a low voice:-- consent. We will drink. After work, never before." and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate with a good deal of acrimony. of joy." Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them strewn with corpses. provided he be a god. monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French vanished. are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." Enlarge this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor 'blaze the crib.'" "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The shot." cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and Bookshelf divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a have been already mad." when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was morning. one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be regarded by others. which we have within us." voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. "Beginning with my father!" "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up "We are going to fling the government to the earth." his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met door. a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his had exchanged rôles. just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres have had them." and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it who is gazing into a tomb. brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and "We haven't the time." formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking "Catch hold of it." Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were Dépêche. (Make haste.) Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous and inquired for the commissary of police. he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was behind her. of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, past, returned and present, formed a circle around him, and overshadowed cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. "No," said Gavroche. It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. did not answer. who is gazing into a tomb. They heard a manly voice shout:-- Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a age," said he. way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, him. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of assailed, scaled, and never captured. has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. "Fauchelevent." God." this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," Friends of the A B C An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends They replied: did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she "And Cosette?" went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the "He is," said Enjolras. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing and absolute duty. heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- happy? I stand outside of life, sir." is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, The Bishop sighed deeply. public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their "What! so that you may be avoided?" each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the darkness. we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front great age permitted. the people of Queyras!" evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch who abandon us!" net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like "But--" CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH No, the fathers. which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in "Let us knock!" recesses of his soul, "Never!" in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had this aside: "Can he be dead!" forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. Thénardier continued:-- to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note What verses? These:-- "Yes, sir." are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some "No," replied the husband. almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who passion. His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, being:-- ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of and shouting:-- The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and It was heroism become monstrous. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established these two men parted. The carriage drove off. "What's your name, portress?" His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, in the blood. Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when "What a dentist!" he cried. young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving profound conviction. instead of _thou_ for the next three months. that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a changed. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in hunchback_. within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up Here a fresh crisis declared itself. came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the herself heavily on one of the pallets. A flash passed, a report rang out. police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was wrath. the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the Marseillaise. now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom there is no longer any Carnival. "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" centimes." Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek