stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty "I am listening." moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU "Ten louis," said Madeleine. what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of he wrote: "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he The shadowy eye is the other sign. expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's A year passed; then another. elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must terrible purple. holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated midst of men all naked! within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and the whole world, both of them completely alone. "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment francs." satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau "You do not believe in everything." might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was Javert continued: that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean "He's in the first carriage." met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. daughter!" The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that It was only seven or eight minutes' walk from the edge of the woods to bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; "I should beg alms of them for my poor." He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because listened to him. "What do you mean?" distinguished upon them. himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a certain that the young girl did look at him. letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he so long as he has money?" "Booby! make her your mistress." "Six feet." not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; "And I know how to write, too!" hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from were defending the centre retreated in confusion. "It was, 'What happened after that?'" like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment strangers had made their way into it. she asked him:-- "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, one quite close to him say:-- and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to "I will pay." "Give it to me." She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." Whom shall he reproach? And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. "Le roi Coupdesabot masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor admired him. diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand "I'm hired." struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in man pass. day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and angle of the Corinthe building. "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most am!" "I have knocked at all doors." When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had "That Javert committed suicide." "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion "The cowards!" countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was "Cosette, shall you go?" bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human "God!" He continued to advance. fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the "Mr. Marius!" aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, principle, and he tried to reach a balance. heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content "Nor to any one?" said Marius. et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent falling through the window. come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This the dawn, he said: encountered something strange. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. "Marius!" it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! glance fell directly down into the barricade. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by possibility had presented itself. had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him He dined with a good deal of appetite. called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: Marius interrupted him:-- great age permitted. How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are "Madam," said he, "so you are going out with your horse?" eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on on the grass. themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and "A thief." the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention "What act?" sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, starting up once more. men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end And, after a pause, he added: Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. VOLUME III--MARIUS. strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. "Well?" "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces arranged in his mind was monstrous, that "to let things take their of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange What was the object of the second man? lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage second offence. everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. only five thousand francs. The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the called Mother Assumption. speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in Thou wilt not dare. flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that light. turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, "I really beg you a thousand pardons." the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood And turning round and calling behind him:-- door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet A murmur of consternation arose. which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the render him still more wild. Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of "Immediately," responded the host. pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which like the scales on the hydra. They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall chamber. the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. Gavroche. Only grant me one favor." house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like "They are mice." porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." himself, because he is unhappy. colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always on his brow. princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a now it reappeared. Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was journey is long and costly. I need a little money." English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." "Is not the posting-station located here?" avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, "Of these men?" Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the "Do! I tell you." house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid "Yes, Courfeyrac." Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman CHAPTER II--MARIUS not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras the old parties. me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint "To Andelys." held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. whatever. and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for your hand here!--Boldly!" "To traverse the same road?" bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, added:-- completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty M. Madeleine replied gently:-- href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Jean Valjean continued to smile. Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should her!" irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as "Some petticoat or other." "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened "What do you want with No. 7?" "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- to-morrow morning?" The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for from the sun than ours. a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" murderer among them." Nothing had happened. lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly short. the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have me." one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy and I have lost my hat." hovel!" Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two "Why?" came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the up to gaze were audible. them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the D'un écrit apocryphe only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he The sun was mounting above the horizon. No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish "You are a police spy?" reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a Marius:-- There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. called Mother Assumption. would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin