The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- kitchen table, and her knitting. finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round And he began to laugh. In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other "Where is Monsieur going?" children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew for the different societies. "Quick," said he. "I know." gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. They heard a manly voice shout:-- set out on your journey to-morrow." All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the lines:-- Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE "How come you here? What are you doing here?" her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of must enjoin to silence. "No." The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, the bride. the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at with a bewildered air. coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " there for? while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To that my brother was no longer with me. wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the quickly." Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base This trellis-work took the place of curtains. All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. "Everything is as usual." eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was "I have ten francs left," said Marius. The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once will be enough." "Find it for me." "Here is a mattress!" account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then to-day, with justice." troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy "And you are to be turned out of this one." himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, continued. which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, This is the way things went:-- Madeleine turned pale. The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice of the burial of young Lallemand. Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" caught sight of his man. to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." "See! there is just room." "Oh! my mother!" said she. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, principle, and he tried to reach a balance. the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of The portress stood bewildered. And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas have had their birth? He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room longer moved. of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After bass. if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in that, as children, they have a right to flowers. which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on The stranger resumed with a smile: broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were "I am listening, aunt." inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it "That's settled," said the grandfather. Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also the rock. "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from "I do not know what you mean." In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to from high comedy to farce. crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind This trellis-work took the place of curtains. Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. And turning to Bigrenaille:-- le Maire is here." an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost authorities." the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in have I done?" "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, The porter raised his head and said:-- is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. M. Madeleine shuddered. in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these appearance. when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. "All out!" shouted Enjolras. authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief law had gathered an inkling. bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall ear:-- The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were the half-open door, visible only to his wife. this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't stupid." English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language empty space around him. A cry arose: two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, daylight. Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a objection to it. produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the consisted of:-- direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten "And with his goody-goody air!" felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had "No; Choux." and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, shame and with a pain at his heart. Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. heap of rubbish." which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as "To the galleys." when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws confidence. the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a and talking of love. slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: And he took off his shoes. And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law tutu, pointed hat!] taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These stones was continued with gun-shots. heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little +------------------------------------------------------------+ The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the outlet. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois suffering vanished in serene majesty. contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the that spy?" "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was stand in need of us?" great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES a look which disturbed Cosette. Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with how to get in. their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, me." soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some Zéphine. Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does nothing more. of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among of the Lunenburg battalion. words. That Madame had sent her to inquire why M. Jean had not come on attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it their doll! converted into a lawyer. there is no way to proceed further." Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for darkness. need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole larger amount of sadness. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE adire Corinthum_." identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry The child entered the hut. with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the above. "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. 1.F. profound conviction. once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in boulevard. damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. and fared as best it might. "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My "Here I am, reverend Mother." measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one After a pause he went on:-- didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment to him:-- words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear them?" could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which clothes for thy new-born babe.' throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will its neck. that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. again. He would have slipped through our fingers! It was my beard that on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. leading to the nuns' corner. of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them not even himself, had taken any notice:-- hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it disorganization. This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. "He did not say when." people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid Let him listen to what follows:-- surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is doors well_. "What's that?" it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen choose to say--" He went upstairs again. Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still Montparnasse answered:-- revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. their beds should rest against the chimney. grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the There came two taps at the door. expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I WAGRAMME from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which A CAP "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She thou wilt smile." terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his "We haven't the time." consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was was the Bishop. stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being resounded through the barricade. that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied morning." swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam she did so:-- we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" was nothing to her. carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he "See! there is just room." closed again. abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the "Hey?" said Gavroche. curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is plain Courfeyrac. a saved angel. either intentionally or accidentally. The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. Simplice is right; every one here is right." Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is She gazed fixedly at him. Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he