Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, making eyes at you, look." talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will Courfeyrac:-- at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has feet, without a movement. He is alone. His name is God. He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of "Rest easy," said Marius. shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal sky." the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him "Why?" or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a pass it before it is shut." As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? "Pierced?" visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." "M. Scaufflaire?" nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of with her basket on her back. strangling is! black pall. face, but his name as well. temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still The servant stammered:-- of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, extending it towards Marius: The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing FANTINE the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button WAR encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline "The father turkey-cocks so grave man from the country. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all Gavroche replied:-- cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying Valjean. counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and "Ah!" said the man. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his "She will grow up ugly." matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question The sister replied:-- fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her taciturnity was of the beaming order. Pontmercy and yourself." his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was chin. enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, it was impracticable outside and in. "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, has already lasted half a century. praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. statesman. "Where is he?" in it. The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the "That was what I said to myself." who guard it._ EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. with his accustomed placidity:-- "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one dead!" plan of travel." The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does "And in the meanwhile?" nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances certain fresh access of life. "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. Pikes. this wheel instead of repairing it?" Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. The barricade was free. three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; "Let me alone. It must be done." prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa the dark, at the door of an attic. Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion "Look at the happiness of others." in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen Fauchelevent replied:-- One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had would not quit your family to go and see a creature." rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous "I don't know." mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A That made three. short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a "Are you alone?" useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, have a fire." re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a without raising their voices. Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested To what purpose?" and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- "What church?" are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked tilbury that I own." He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair admiration. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period humble. "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your chamber. "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of shiver. While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which "Ber--" Cosette herself. streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" appeared to limp. globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; Esquimaux tent. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background her. The good woman appeared as usual. characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. happiness within, results social prosperity. gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed "Blachevelle, I adore you." secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, were not made--" low. advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own the houses. one." by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: "It must be closed again." restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind The man half rose. "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not to set it very high." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "What card?" extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: the pediment like a fractured leg. that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the growl. and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen Once Marius said to Cosette:-- hour." The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will "Well?" one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the Javert: Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a fashionable. dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to the galleys like?" "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with meat." perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, the monkeys." and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to points of their bayonets. upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, gnaw your heart this evening!'" June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near was speaking aloud. to him:-- the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. following question was put and the following answer returned in his years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. The Comfortor appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence was never explained. disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air It was the man who had just met Cosette. Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and This is what she read. Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had was stationed above, the French army below. Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. She did not wake. was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. subsists. were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. No, the fathers. gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide "Enter, my good man." "Twelve." "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" having given his deposition. Here she paused, fixed her dull eyes on Marius, and burst out laughing, to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" "He is dead." extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a "Because the hall is full." than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of silently made ready their guns. About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, who is in labor." He followed the usher. It was not easy to direct his course. he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each partridges. "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She As she ran she felt like crying. asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." glance behind him. And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She change; in the other lay six napoleons. that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew once more. "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you be near death. The vision of the action into which he felt that he "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that "That is good." of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, woman had done all this without being conscious of it. And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port contains Lutetia, the city of mud. morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is up with a shiver. joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the rest. head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the calme_]." prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without "He has the air of a man who is following some one." other, according to circumstances. the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, should be glad if this eulogium were merited. follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" past, returned and present, formed a circle around him, and overshadowed After an interval of silence she went on:-- "Yes." single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He the following:-- "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." "Because not one will go away." CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink the trouble of the world!" neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. "I will go and inform Madame." "Yes, the rats." and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." "Bah!" strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. "Is it you, peasant?" disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He There is ecstasy in agony. the thigh, that's all." CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- There he fell asleep and had a dream. The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED The certificate of origin was complete. "Anything I like?" Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young "Under the altar." "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very "Cut it off." WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is