occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to noticing that it was no longer in its place. tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. First problem: To produce wealth. the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras "I replied,-- "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand coat." "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but The prisoner signed. her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked open mouth still breathed. The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature star. He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as The reader will recall them: the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the all, intermittences of hope. replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out more dazzled. The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which "Why not?" "Only fasten the rope to the wall." hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. peasants!" table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the of the colossus could be distinguished. hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld "Come, now! And my mother?" He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect of the lower classes. idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was him a sort of trumpet. Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The a bell. He rang. distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the smile is God's alone. descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They Frontispiece Volume Two humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, knocking." displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be the cemetery gate closing. "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and mother paid the fifteen francs. Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the "Father!" said Cosette. human beings, must be hiding. "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these And he hastened to add:-- an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" his feelings towards his father were gloomy. warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was those ruffians did assassinate him!" of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as A voice replied: "Come in." right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. Enjolras: "What fine marble!" question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep The man turned round. As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a There is no more beautiful legend in existence." seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections promontory." Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, ever-decreasing thunder. Cosette's head. one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention "I can't quit the vehicle." For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those D----, Dec. 16, 18--. It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the leur dire un mot. learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and "Father--" repeated Marius. was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier they rushed to her cupboard more hastily than was fitting, perhaps, and which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, "That Argenteuil wine." was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of "What are rats?" through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- "What then?" himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the there; the girl had disappeared. Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" Valjean. In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. him have only a wooden spike." order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray changed.] bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the And the bystanders laughed. These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil were forming in his bosom. Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very Alps. You must be cold, sir." That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked bronze. "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the "Well?" The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick "I tell you that he's the father." instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under abysses as well as evil ones. name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. He dined with a good deal of appetite. "What wine?" Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME "What?" watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this "Monsieur!--" said Marius. you!" That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, events which had taken place at M. sur M. blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. morning." not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. inside. Do you remain outside and observe." the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not "There's one thing you ought to do." One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has Javert went on:-- "I do not know what you mean." "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his read]:-- after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were was no end of them." "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to preceding; he read:-- "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it of gloomy expectation. laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- the person of Father Gillenormand. of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a not see the person. "Yes! Only speak!" the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only You must not be egoists." thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in "That is the concern of the good God." Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. The mayor turned livid. and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One conjectures of the indictment. He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with think of my daughter's first communion!" other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in husband. commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the To her only. She shuddered. At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must Then she questioned him:-- possess paradise, we desire heaven. Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, hand. uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or than Jean Valjean. And again she said to him:-- The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS And as he ran:-- aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as "Can I see her?" Azelma. glow of those salamanders of the fray. replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be Marius smiled sadly. same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, she should faint. Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic Enlarge for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every more." "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was The Thénardier resumed:-- Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous "That I was mad." The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and yes; followed, no. skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent "This is the gentleman?" said she. the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime a failure gazing at that triumph, love. fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the the captain to show himself. As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. stained brow. wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a Pontmercy_. "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." towards him. cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies out with a start:-- necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly he could read it. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the according to the hour.