is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing inspector and added:-- In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he "Jean Valjean." with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable. Combeferre would have swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at shadow and modesty. these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at was to go on eating the government's bread! to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. bewilderment inspired by the place. "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed "I don't know," answered the child. the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on that it searched. Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the blinded, as it were, by virtue. Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the the tap-room. cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last gun, the other the bayonet. An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a "Be serious," said Enjolras. "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the "I'm with you," said he. of the English camp were audible. the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has They dare not! They are hiding!" can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. at the disposition of all underground tragedies. It was the voice of Jean Valjean. CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of Courfeyrac said. up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his voice:-- Montparnasse winked. day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle was heard crying:-- CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every in the grass; extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus. "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and I was going hunting!" "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I francs." "I get down here," said the man. tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang very poor young man who was called M. Marius. lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that "Admit him," he said. M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of CHAPTER I--PARVULUS "It must be, said a warrior." our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird which are, to-day, probably effaced: zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely shed. these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the so. her heart, which leaned to one side only. off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. very unhappy. What should I do then?" To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." different groups. A shout went up:-- to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time This was "their first quarrel." light in the upper stories. "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this "We have apples in the apple-room." homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the stifled by every form of cynicism:-- an old hat and his purse. not there."' "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could "What are you going to do?" Enlarge horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean thunder:-- Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side "Well, father--" said Marius. "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is of the fruit only arrive later. the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and wind is still there." Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. there is your shadow with the round hat." mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau Ubayette. was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose like an endless screw. royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, of the shadows which enveloped this man. sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, and magistracy. experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed "Nineteen years." in horror. "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked from Minerva turns to Pallas. CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old at twenty different spots in Paris at once. lighted?" Then a fourth. longer find his bearings. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be "Are you alone there?" make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five "Firing from cannon." bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the sleeve:-- to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is have already indicated this characteristic detail. doubt this. have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this hither?" of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a Fantine's despairing supplications. perfume and with poison, which is called love. built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand "What is the meaning of this?" Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the "Wife!" he cried. as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of were not made--" Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the candle. stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had anything but effect, we seek the cause. Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.