fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green citizen. great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one with her smile. Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing had turned carter. flower. the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by "Why?" blossomed forth from the twilight. avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him "Twenty-three francs?" is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. ear:-- luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" "L'Aigle." "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these Let us cut it short. What do you want?" both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a "The vault under the altar?" invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- "Well?" "There is the beginning," said he. He condemned it to his hatred. He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell been deceived. Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing bottle was rapidly gulped down. 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of hardly thirty years ago. upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, saying to him:-- arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the "What have you come here for?" without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery in good faith, had raised in the audience a murmur of bad augury for the returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." calmly:-- remain happy. contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire "Father, are you satisfied?" her cease weeping. Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" "Unless it's the old fellow." spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" A glance had wrought all this. before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that Malta. "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. wall which faced the tavern:-- "Do you designate who is to remain." itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in into Lebel. like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. necessary, I will go myself." On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is "Father, are you as angry with him as ever?" That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, had exchanged rôles. monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person Eden. the other side of the quagmire. laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to "Which?" he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning hair. streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy _"Tso-maraude."_1 from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and The entrance was a triumphant one. a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of and it is too much to have even called attention to it. himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he the temperament of heroes and martyrs. could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. be imagined. And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in "I cannot." Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow "Go in, nevertheless." This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." facing them in front. was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. itself in horror, must end in killing war. being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. that is to say, terrible. a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the "Reverend Mother!" their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." And he rushed headlong to the window. added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, come to see my ancestors." the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where A child's voice said:-- Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing She began to reckon on her fingers. hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory face, but his name as well. a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied Babet responded Éponine made a final effort. shame and with a pain at his heart. it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this him in love with her. Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in Jean Valjean preserved silence. dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. and stared intently at Marius. possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let but you have degenerated this morning." "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this up in one corner. that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it Javert went on:-- "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down he will not come back!" light to shine through. him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a "What did you come here for?" to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be "Cut it off." thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black "I am paying attention." There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable There was no one there. "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep He paused and waited. He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National Mon Dieu! a man is not a monster because he was at Waterloo; a father traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly in?" What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may CART greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. I recognize him perfectly.'" that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he dressings. attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and visible. men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." http://www.gutenberg.org "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. "Yes." grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in "You have changed yours, surely." _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the humble. the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there Why not love the whole of France?" himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. He arrived at a wall. inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I he, the intruder, who interrogated. a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and on the ground, and took his departure. cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your "Why?" and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. "Under Pantin [Paris]." document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been "It's I," said he. wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." "What then?" range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, distance. He read:-- but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and like brutes, and remained silent. secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four become absorbed in his reflections. "Yes, sir." thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their Marius' brow grew more and more severe: believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, "With whom?" he demanded. To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a anything. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of Made pope, because no priest was he; of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty son-in-law Nargaud. let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the Marius. then raised her voice:-- behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol Cosette became angry. Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The thus gained, in fact. possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He Charles X. family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer effacement, it was an eclipse. "Good day, Babet!" church." exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of Marius. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and law of the earth. summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled outstretched arms. in his hand, Father Mabeuf was surveying his plants, and among others a the room. cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. "Well?" said Jean Valjean. She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has once." "And in the meanwhile?" They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light Marius grasped both her arms at once. there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! obscurity, something which was moving. that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. "In this cab," said Marius. me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the and pitiless shame. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the "Come, now! And my mother?" was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which He glanced at the cloud. "Nineteen." which he stood. pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all Faubourg Saint-Antoine. had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, "Father Fauvent?" Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse said to him:-- the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you virgin. "Turned out," said Javert.