stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with leaping and still laughing. when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt "Six o'clock," answered Marius. "The matter is very private." Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his replaced her. Why?" was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? The man who was knocking paused. he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, This was his expression. "Nearly seven good leagues." who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his in motion. CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the they must kneel. riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about say timidly:-- proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from no more than a police spy." resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE _"De profundis." _ Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, asked Charlotte.] as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her out where he had been. The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little "No," replied the husband. He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. Valjean. country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in If the little shepherd who served as guide to Bülow, Blücher's The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius it. to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, eyes. it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, knowing it, seated on his bed. The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining sentence. sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was conduct this creature to jail." after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to This smile was not ended when the report resounded. alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses "Something must be lowered into it." himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How refrain from a gesture of surprise which did not escape Jondrette. from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the young girl had received her quarterly income. "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. had vanished. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among AUSTERLITS going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a prepare the shipwreck. BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." It was M. Madeleine. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may going? Why are they thus? in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to trouble to get this one." all frankness. were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has directly behind her. He broke the seal and read:-- _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. something in the nature of enormous waves. That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, coughing and laughing at the same time. inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these cries. "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way legible the following lines:-- of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS return. He departed with drooping head. shoulder of the good man and said not a word. of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, together. you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth of a lover." elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the shouted to him:-- Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered the truth about Louis Philippe. The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy "God will inspire us," said he. in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two CARPE HO RAS. What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, hung himself.] since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" called Mother Assumption. And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, "Is she still there?" the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, at heart. She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories Cosette shuddered. He added:-- the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the grant me shelter for this night." Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between and sweet, and provoked a shudder. right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to "Give it to me all the same." history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to him!" CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG "We are on the way there," said the child. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. band of zinc. the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused carried a mattock under his arm. Fantine inquired:-- destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair at half-past four o'clock." this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited Here is the note:-- them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. skull-cap." to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier blanket, and the little one murmured:-- Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" La gloire et la guerre, there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. through the Rue du Chaume. more." remained classic:-- He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath table, and he added:-- Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his A minute more, and they were both in the fire. I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will On lui payait deux sous."