"And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable piece stolen from the little Savoyard. wished to retain her features for eternity. soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Come, now! And my mother?" The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four notice of it. and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water height of their bodies. Ça Ira. dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with This is the problem which presented itself to him: preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. thousand crowns." more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" them also, muttering: petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with "I have something to say to you." barricade: "My gun!" They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I Madeleine made no reply. girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the etc. cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A lawyers." gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like chamber without saying a word. for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children the while:-- was extinguished. Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted than a cemetery. me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the replying:-- the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, Then he essayed a desperate effort. the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the with him when he departed. "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of take any notice of this sad side of his success. other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble Swords. wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was tiny scarlet stars. thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, cause stars to blaze forth there. to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. They bore addresses. follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and notice of it. "What is the meaning of this?" more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, "How do you get in?" from the point of view of flowers. Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, "You are a student?" demanded Marius. of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the morrow?" rusty hinge had not awakened any one. eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. "Well, Marius absents himself!" a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with the candle which was burning there. presence of the porter of a factious person. She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty Éponine turned to the five ruffians. A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found that that was what he ought to do. He could not. everywhere.] one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes to him:-- dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease old-clothes broker at the Temple. with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has from behind. took his departure, he said to the sister:-- glittering on the table. times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers "I don't want your money," said she. receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of through the Rue du Chaume. stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the cry. short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately in horror. This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is a lucky girl!" who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the hands a terrible cap which he had. The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of morning." one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was space of fifteen years. "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses Have you them?" CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That years between them, but they already represented the whole society of his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you a little after one o'clock in the morning. apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most As we stroll the faubourgs through. And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he added:-- as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. as he knelt before the sister. "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty with the cavern? him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting To whom? "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. charge is decreased. Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, perceived his error and went down again. He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the "It begins with a kiss," said Blachevelle. Bastille. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had "What do you mean?" trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental "They will rob you, Monseigneur." 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, leaving that hated and hating house. Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed to gallantry. M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and peremptory fashion. understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort it. swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. woman had become a corpse again. Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general on its guard. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, either one of them where neither exists.] populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. "By the way!" "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. Courfeyrac entered the cab. "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists new coat. redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this "No." their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert asleep and heard nothing more. Babet interrogated him:-- Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had vanished from his sight in the street. were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant two brats rendered some shock necessary. guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help appearance. out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. father? Why should he! Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one off his hand with an axe. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair bewildered eye. she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment And this was simply divine. Bishop. CHAPTER X--DAWN from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the not come from there. the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a And I am off to Palestine." Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. at night. a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We myself, too." "Do." the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the "I know him." Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than From the proper employment of forces results public power. Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its pavement of the street. It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have of that king, anointment meant the galleys. bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might their oblong casques of leather, with brass hands and red horse-tails, presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he "Is there a carriage at the door?" himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as Restif de La Bretonne. She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the of being with me!" This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month The Bishop resumed mildly:-- conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, with Cosette's handwriting. At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers inquired:-- "Have you a place?" forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great smoke. had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the table. "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for follows:-- "I don't know," answered the child. got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one "My name is Cosette." Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to The door opened. her. The good woman appeared as usual. blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his And Dahlia exclaimed:-- made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's It was conceived as follows:-- preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would such an expression, is to be the conqueror! disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy hideous devotion. Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, him:-- lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. him. Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude and with crape on his hat. Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic "I deny it." nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, At that moment, nine o'clock struck. The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The fall from his pocket. with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he great. for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations.