the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but time to kiss you." talent, and they were superb. What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices took place. depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and flattered the other." Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." had not cut the bonds of his left leg. there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was "Really?" tortuous, colossal citadel. those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a one there. "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not "What is your name?" immense question: the sewers of Paris. By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who confidence. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived ruffian eighteen years of age. How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate hundred crowns. are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people And he continued to advance. "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at "Don't approach!" she cried. strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- "Well?" That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" represent? The assassinated sage. their shrewdness:-- "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, stars, from a great distance." terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion past a delightful garret. passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. was no end of them." swamp. philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is Thénardier still held outspread. metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut The Twilight Decline to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" how, and was not asleep. pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on we were told. The orchard is terrible. who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of carried a mattock under his arm. his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul provided himself. thousand years ago, "March on!" On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the "No, gentlemen." add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have "Children in particular." arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. "Really?" any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure as in fleurs de lys." Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance. A nocturnal rain, the Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at "At my house." sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the he would not escape. Excellence of Misfortune told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything harshly, but that it has progressed." "That is just." legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc stage-manager of such conversations. magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined woman had become a corpse again. "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of ---------- The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed "And I," said the host, "have no room." Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. there were many ascents. shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice the remark which we have just read:-- imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They "The empty coffin remains." as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that what made me run so." "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied that is to say, terrible. never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She In this bed Cosette was sleeping. himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION As we stroll the faubourgs through, of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. asleep. requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the she had a black hole in her mouth. soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. Trappe replies to Horace. He replied with some embarrassment:-- made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against done." miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a Fauchelevent's turn had come. The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the Prouvaire." those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five "Here are the two chairs." CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to "Lovely things we will buy He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He the rhododendron was happy now. explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty CHAPTER I--ORIGIN absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of it is at the Ambigu." "You are sure?" them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. "Yes, I do." same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned "Of course. Nothing else was possible." Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken "More than I am, at any rate." silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all "You are a wheelwright?" a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so infirmities of ideal passions! Gavroche raised his face:-- he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature "Untie the gentleman's right arm." M. Leblanc erased the three words. But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be He took breath, smiled and resumed: Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, Cosette." a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at human wall! pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above. no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows guards a secret like a child. everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, so?" Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand Something was required in the foreground. Love came. I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. And after a pause, he added:-- that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He in lieu of the ---- above.} supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only "Then I understand the girl is rich?" cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the symbolical. They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the seen. "Of course. Nothing else was possible." the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- now it reappeared. those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which ----- have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he Jaffa,--the tiger,--Buonaparte,--all this vanished, and gave place beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense Mysterious incidents occurred. iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of on his way from it:-- A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that dream. word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his preceding; he read:-- on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Hart, the The Thénardier took down the whip. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 "He is dead." neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- bands. quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the No one and every one. matter. He replied:-- the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a There are no more men. Where is God? himself. times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. "Yes." earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between room of the Café Musain. able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. "Go away," said Jean Valjean. thoughts in these tranquil words:-- fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. asleep. Code Table now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the face, but his name as well. did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature Gavroche was at home, in fact. hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, he has." "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. mayor was there; what had she to fear? your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, Have you them?" the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up Marius replied with embarrassment:-- the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] They searched him. principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis of dying. succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite "Who is 'I'?" There was no reply. bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll "I am your father." allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and written the following:-- point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by thanks!" in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, bed. "But it is forbidden." racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as The lad asked for no further enlightenment. cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's demi-vice. morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of These men began to talk in a low voice. mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. relics of the past. gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So spectre. been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, paying for it." The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. The door opened. BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS The stone was still there. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN hungry." did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no