"I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the recesses of his soul, "Never!" household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. her:-- proposed to her. passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely "It strikes me that I know that girl." Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which except her pallor. told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A And Cosette answered:-- you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? heard. "Yes," said the mother. "To penal servitude?" attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an "I am here to do anything you wish." When he came down again the portress interrogated him: have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" "We expect no one." a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back which had not been apparent previously. He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless Whom shall he reproach? All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been wood." CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS Gorbeau house had come to nothing. was charged. of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could He hastily relighted his candle. he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of stone, with balustrade with a double curve. you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips Thénardier continued:-- notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for with misery. the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! saint suited this soul. about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this "Alone." no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his Thénardier continued:-- sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, Snatched up a Paving Stone candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's One last word about Fantine. At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER female Thénardier. was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a set out across the thickets. guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and eighty. man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them The gendarmes retired. shouting:-- flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule invisibility. good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that making eyes at you, look." was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper "Well, in two hours, then." CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his "Say on." more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful was told to Jean Valjean. It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should "Set out." hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled listen. Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and "What's that?" patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. "Well?" said Cosette. and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which guest, and said to him,-- You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object "Yes." When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the need. Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays "Father!" passed and vanished. but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, "Yes, it has," said Madame Thénardier. On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and which had descended to him from his own grandmother. remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It on. Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most "I? I said nothing." the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to thing in strict accordance with the text. and said in a firm, low voice:-- them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be half open. preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so he. In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not wish to know her." glances like chained wolves. with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of Who denies that? Of course it does. distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the his master. God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert CHAPTER IV--A There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of a while longer. streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy "Eh! eh!" "Firing from cannon." Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who "I am your father." wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of had that Night." an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers "Yes," said Marius. your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a "No." teeth:-- debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of The prisoner resumed:-- kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing each other _thou_.] the houses. assassin and a robber." blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they Man is the second. of life been established between this celestial little creature and that CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it "What! so it's that imp!" Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. his bare arm. me." the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man arrive will have the best places." aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and perfume and with poison, which is called love. "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to classes." The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop himself to drop into his chair. I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is place between the maskers and the crowd. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which nothing more. What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found this epoch. "Is that what you want?" she demanded. what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her least. porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a her:-- While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. "Yes, sir." are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I Faoucq. witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which "I am the one who pays!" bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, thief because he is known to be a convict." military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. "More than I am, at any rate." the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the where terror lurked. the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. limb. rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is flee! was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's continue his travells. corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The Then he shouted with all his might:-- his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had "Yes." On the following day Father Madeleine refused. there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the "Mistress what?" accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was totally dark. "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. CHAPTER VI--WAITING The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, ebullition. wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most passed. twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would and black with mud. He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of voice continued:-- "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate Hucheloup:-- "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended sepulchre. Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. humble. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And he. his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an vaguely, with these figures:-- carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the and pitiless shame. the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives Valjean resumed: litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally everybody is canaille!" singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius "No." me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am charming hour with which grand passions begin. Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is outside, past the trees and the gate. of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What And he added: Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction had purchased at Saint-Cloud. of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at "How does one get it?" branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to The fifteen-sou piece was not there. his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers exclaimed, "What frights they are!" is almost indescribable. The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; harness over. sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, facing them in front. Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the