Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that Here is their dialogue: A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing can one earn a hundred sous a day?" column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT And she had replied: "This." Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope sepulchre. he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. respectful:-- but it fits me!" a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly Still the little one could not sleep. inexorable." think of my daughter's first communion!" intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and them. He resumed with solemnity:-- up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one sincerely, and he felt it. They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly the universe wills, therefore it has a God. The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge romance then celebrated:-- me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a "What! There is not room for one more?" Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, preceding; he read:-- which are, to-day, probably effaced: "And conscience," added the Bishop. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched Porque enseñas, For instruction meet not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the ruffian eighteen years of age. of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in "What does _Hercle_ mean?" There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated prison. for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, ventriloquist. occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, Jean Valjean stammered: prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized -that's the object of men. Gold, that's the loadstone." At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for travelling since morning. said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of "Yes!" and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, "Feel how cold I am," said she. fell to her knees. their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his republic. profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the surprising could be seen. "Go," said Jean Valjean. Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. Tou tou tou "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. her!" Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent One evening he had a singular apparition. mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls He drew near to the Jondrette girl. above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine Thénardier! Now do you know me?" occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible Marius shuddered. from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in The master's face appeared. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you "No." to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours cardinal. "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This "The tilbury." particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. sentence, and you cannot take an oath." when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one at a time. These men watched me pass. more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at The "lass" was a grave. gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good The father was saying to his son: a look which disturbed Cosette. large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I sleeve:-- have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that followed him and laughed. from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing belly before that man!" Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers "It is done." the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as He seized the two candlesticks. Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, it. "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but close to the workingman, the second to the students. Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about "Well?" the empty coffin?" young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it man. on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the "Just as I am going to do." "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured period? have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who twenty-four flints. Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he lodger_, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, "What will you give me?" some person who is dear to him. People die of that." "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that "Really! and yourself?" the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. "To the Cadran-Bleu." in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let "They will rob you, Monseigneur." himself to it," etc., etc. never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. him. had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three centimes." existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her appearance once more in the opening. of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: something else. December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify So Fantine was watched. "To be free," said Combeferre. "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. And as he ran:-- "But it is not possible!" man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an "I thought he was buckled." divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something them than the Spanish captain. penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. Enlarge that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it occupied themselves with the question of happiness. Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she under their coverlet. "Calm yourself, my child," said the doctor; "your child is here." and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED Courfeyrac entered the cab. archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and coping of the wall had been torn away. effort, and looked at Marius. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than 'blaze the crib.'" cudgel, which was lying on the ground. from infirmity. The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there effort in speaking in this manner: He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must It was already done. Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the pavement. district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was profound anxiety. extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, "That is possible." MUNICIPAL POLICE tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. is something. Nothing is nothing. top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, Tholomyès went on:-- come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. out of the scrape yourself." This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law The policemen and agents recoiled. The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not He recoiled and stammered:-- CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than "You are dead. A two." headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving "You are her father?" its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all "Well?" whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the prioress at nine years. Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an time. But was he a lawyer after all? The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, lily. were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?" hovel!" morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, very unhappy. What should I do then?" garden and we are done for." Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging galleys. Grand reign; grand century. Universe. other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I a strange and bitter aftertaste. those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where "False address!" when they come from a daughter to her father. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, Nevertheless, he struggles. Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, "No splashing of the wounded," he said. 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is is smaller; that is all. "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then may not fall into sin on our account." proposed to fleece royally the following morning. Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never gazed upon with joy. his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops "No, the persons have moved away." convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors on the recital. There is ecstasy in agony. eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a "How is that poor woman?" for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you nights are cold, the days are hot.' He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. poignards. the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur nod his head? "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last anything to add to your defence?" The Comfortor thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- cap." answered, "I have money." At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that CHAPTER IV--A private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man He felt that he had been stopped short.