vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face time." we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in Culture-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They "He's a police spy." rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT window. which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; she might not see him wipe his eyes. Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! "Whither are they going?" curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. "It is not that." shall be innocent. thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The which Paris has given birth. now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as "He is absent. I am here in his stead." turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, succession over her soul. another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch of Paris." it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another lightning as that. "Let us be good fellows." to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, calme_]." red. does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you me about mamma." bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, dear." "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. "Have you it about you?" there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old "Because I love statesmen." shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" some person who is dear to him. People die of that." BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the past a delightful garret. No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they "I am the convent grave-digger." Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of laughing:-- Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, girls trembled and dropped their eyes. flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. hear about the matter early enough in any case. pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. "Look! sister." It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul CHAPTER X--DAWN CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of Gavroche. toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an "At the _Bon Coing_." "Food and lodging," said the man. the order. phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- "Lovely things we will buy real overwhelmed by the ideal. He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and "What is your name?" said the man. to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in This noise made Valjean turn round. She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing The barricade was saved. them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the The rope ladder was still shaking. other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of We have just seen him at Montfermeil. without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to The rope which he had was too short. necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage alas! to go out. more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation conjectures of the indictment. Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at An officer intervened. and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and A silence fell upon them. the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter Other fatalities were destined to arise. He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine Robespierre. pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, Language: English explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what ivory-handled knife which I use at table. awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact "So, you will go?" Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one the galleys like?" life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" "It is so solitary here." Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" one's flesh. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. Jean Valjean preserved silence. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the "By taking two post-horses?" met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He "I am going to die presently." sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone "Speak." than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it single spot of intelligence. Cosette nodded gravely. Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is will be enough." It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose It was not long in coming. They idolized each other. vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. Frontispiece Volume One the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. Marius smiled sadly. retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together "Nicolette suffices." engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and The child was not afraid. "Ah!" "Look at the water jug. It is empty." To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar stained brow. word Will. Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! Here is their dialogue: 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade with boots otherwise than like mirrors. "What is it?" strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "And what was the question?" some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! the language of wretchedness. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. shed. hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" the soul like a clot of despair. LAST KING grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that he doing? Why does he not come?" revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he The convent stopped him on that downward path. was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, with a lively curiosity. CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO "Nothing." I am going." "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some "And Cosette?" "Reverend Mother?" Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, support. It was high time. of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the twenty paces in advance of Marius. the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. "He did not answer my question." attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated like the fly serving the spiders. to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order "Do not call me father." "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, Grantaire retorted:-- Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." ready to march onward. As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor there. always a good thing to have a pin about one." wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit Why not love the whole of France?" All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; you!" cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look The man's voice resumed:-- to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation dying. grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, used, this table was free. as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of evident Jacquerie:-- always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in of blackguards." "No, sir." A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed convenient. I think that my father and mother were people who strolled me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then hundred crowns. frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead FANTINE Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and "A pot-house! Never." fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was Was she expecting a visitor? No. cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably "Under the altar." "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been receive me either." "And how did you return?" bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three The first hour passed in this manner. "A tear of dew! A little pity!" opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in tone of Nicolette. crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, _The Mother_. How is that, my child? benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. which is still pointed out. write to that good old soul?" Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, derivative of the night. tranquil." or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with "You may retire, gentlemen." times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is would be terrible." her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on CHAPTER V--PRAYER always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and cardinal. the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. "Monsieur Pontmercy." the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From "Who are you?" "More than you have, perhaps." The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. affair!" farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and "Like yourself, reverend Mother." venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, both eyes proudly. cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage before him. direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will "Why?" laughing. "That is good." or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, "We shall meet again shortly!"