the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- as "thou." garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with "Why?" 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became which opened on the back yard. England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die to you." Frontispiece Volume Five having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. to himself in a bewildered way:-- two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire late. The son had also arrived too late. only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman inside and a thicket on the outside. "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." They retraced their steps. stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as us something to breakfast on." a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an 87." all the hoops are visible." in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great "I don't know anything about it." "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP not even himself, had taken any notice:-- arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting Let us fight. the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid "And that you are a rascal. Here." Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, very timid. Yet he was intrepid. this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and children." window. Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first discussion just now." followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where possible, a breach for the assault. words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red _"Requiescat in pace." _ However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was virtue or an idea. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. "Yes, of course." glow of those salamanders of the fray. everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look The father rose. Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five breasts."] But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped "Would you like to have me go with you?" moment when nudity becomes indecent. from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; him and said:-- Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being was seated on the shaft of the cariole. his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to Polignac!'" Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame knows the rest. trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions of the fruit only arrive later. sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. "Go and get the child," said he. emerge at nightfall and in disguise. so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a As we stroll the faubourgs through, CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, Basque announced: returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must as yet made a serious beginning. sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, and he, he rattles in the death agony. feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that "Two good ones." his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; distant sound of marching. found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord "Forty sous; agreed." have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; three times rapidly without uttering a word. Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, no fault of ours." and the child. dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite "No; Choux." Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. about in search of shelter. of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own 56 (return) [ jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. Right of revision. Dufond. Four. A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served It was not worth while to place a lion there. of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had on their way to the right bank. nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte "Navet, Gavroche's friend." satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light "And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us "Immediately," replied the landlord. Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. _"Requiescat in pace." _ long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" of her husband, turned to say:-- encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel unhappy woman shuddered. Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the ailing soul. Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. whether he could not discover some shelter. and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. took them with him. The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a The sergeant lowered his bayonet. appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He Enlarge This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the nowadays!" The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle Let us fight. Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. together. nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed facilitate this tale. Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper the wall. purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted amazement. has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint peasant's head. Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. grumbled:-- have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had illusions. had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles near her ear:-- his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he charming hour with which grand passions begin. poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without hunchback_. He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your "Stay with us," said Laigle. "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had Cosette. with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his and threw them at the men. "I will dictate." to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old "That is well." He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he with her smile. Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is women. was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave there, then, above the sun? The god. forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced blanket, and an alcove with curtains. deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, "There is nothing there." white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from Rousseau." you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are beautiful of all your names." on the recital. We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door heard in all quarters of the town:-- spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then husband. a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been "Was I speaking to you?" in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy "Lovely things we will buy a lucky girl!" various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription horrible. there. Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the quickly." one quite close to him say:-- He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their "Monsieur Marius, if you please." gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, which Paris has given birth. "Look at the water jug. It is empty." I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, Enlarge A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister "What is your rank?" hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the pettifogging, I beg of you." and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares me." paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and "As for you, I shall make a face at you." must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the different groups. A shout went up:-- a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. "Who's that?" "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the barricade again?" "What have you come here for?" "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized went on:-- not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may the other. the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's