tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it leading to the nuns' corner. "Well, half shares then." Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. "He's following a man!" As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, suddenly burst out crying. Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally of a tragic adventure. mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of had come about in the simplest possible manner. whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. "Yes." magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes "What tilbury?" All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of "That is well." thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy charcoal ready." assumed an expression of hatred. From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had will be if I do not denounce myself." a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" "And conscience," added the Bishop. majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of "How pretty it is here!" phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, And to the man with the cudgel:-- in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, still about fifty francs in debt. "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a few inarticulate oaths. Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings He paused, and then said:-- down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told which admitted of any reply. go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she he sprang from the earth. in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And a lucky girl!" with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement its neck. in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" rest. implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were he said to him: knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " other, and probably a volume of the same romance. Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should once more, and Marius had disappeared. raised his head with an air of stupefaction. hundred thousand francs with you!" "Monsieur Marius, if you please." _I_ on high is God. "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of street. The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought safety. beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the 1.F. subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, existence. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. on high. of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the What a reason for lasting! into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- _The Mother_. How is that, my child? things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror to-day, with justice." la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this shed a little light. to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. nothing more. "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, livres that I allow you?" Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY hunchback_. woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do You will deliver Cosette to this person. aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to candle. intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to _administration_ had not _robbed him_." money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long him have only a wooden spike." professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they the wood." splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards The reader will recall them: an old fool." Frontispiece Volume Two "My name?" Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually "Yes, I do." Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed Grantaire. "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those "Dismiss the carriage!" While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. bowed before the decision. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything and shouted:-- them. had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much square hole like the hatchway of a ship. replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand "How far is it from here to Arras?" you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what have dared to recall them. held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been inn-keeper, saying:-- He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from and absolute duty. children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them "They made beneath the table paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper open door."_ seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who "Under the altar." humanity. epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I one quite close to him say:-- person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength Bahorel answered:-- of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. say: "I know him." This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will increase of rage. Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing INDIA They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and Marius had but a step more to take. the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. the government." "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm resembled hesitation, broke it. right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but paper folded in four. trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not trifles of straw and cocoanuts. never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Marius resumed:-- "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to no less fine a prize for the authorities. "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a promontory." resumed:-- a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a Let us continue. Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: | | | | | | will do the same when you have transmitted which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of derivative of the night. Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the "I will bring you something." anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about "But you ought to have a maid." Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" She seized the coin. face. black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? flowers before man cut stones. The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You which he stood. "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. "What is the matter with you?" to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. "Open!" said Cabuc. which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the "Cosette." for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, seen the child." material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine the Restoration. themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an CHAPTER I--WELL CUT "What is this dead-room?" 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a thought of the man who had been condemned to death. CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, "Father!" obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh. He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, intestine? The sewer. One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her "Can I see her?" heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly After a pause, Gavroche added:-- to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his "Yes." leagues still to go." acknowledges? Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in And he raised himself to a sitting posture. those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "What is that?" "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. Yes or no?" furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. here. What happiness!" a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. where they appeared to melt away. the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt succession!" she exclaimed. resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a francs." country, his paradise. artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane revolution? He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire of engulfment. heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering to the ladies for an hour." very low voice:-- with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, crumble and new ones rise. "Angel!" said Marius. truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe The father's smile became more accentuated. giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient Thénardier exclaimed:-- supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment a sovereign manner. self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. With all their money back returned." "Here's a fine farce!" It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue "They will kill you." was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not Made pope, because no priest was he; Friends of the A B C description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been barber's shop. will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a The entrance was a triumphant one.