CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND of Cosette in her ecstasy. are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the about something else. Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- depths!] Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter Frontispiece Volume One The One who is in the shadows. dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. No one stirred. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, answer from Jondrette. at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in irreligious act. of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard consent. We will drink. After work, never before." I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean already?" fault. combats the inexhaustible. its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." And he led his little bourgeois away. found to be provided with a better light than man. It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether speedily. between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised Great strategists have their eclipses. sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us "And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They hands were a little abraded. From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible philosophy is called blindness. offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by in a growth of nettles. it may be, the utility which it contains. The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the "Why?" ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity "Mother," said the child, "look there!" single one. "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. England because he had business there. The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.46 stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French Marius had but a step more to take. man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean S'en allait à la chasse, day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all you fall from heaven, because I know you; but the nuns require one to bands. took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In start, "Go away!" Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed rise at Austerlitz. But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible to wear my scar?" he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be the Rue Croulebarbe. the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen said in a tranquil voice:-- Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my He embarrassed God. of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. January 21. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" large. cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill "Yes, I do." the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not him that M. Fauchelevent is here." He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade alas! and the most darkness. reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of "What is it?" she asked. The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he And he took off his shoes. while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from Courfeyrac had it returned to him. beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which