whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY AUSTIN CASTILLEJO which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? hands a terrible cap which he had. then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible Simplice is right; every one here is right." each other. "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE was heard crying:-- shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious to be irreproachable. necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. "Here is a mattress!" He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out contents himself with the remark:-- need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! One evening he had a singular apparition. "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. yesterday. "Certainly, sir." CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER "What card?" from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." "It was I who told Basque to remove them." point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish had they not been dazzled by it. to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face being aware of the fact, he constantly shortened it. His whole perfectly, and replied:-- The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and of the street. Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that plant; if you are a man, be love. Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe "What?" The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, his flight and was leading him back. candlesticks. Take them." Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the "Mathematically!" this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. The soldiers seized her by the arms. What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! which opened on the back yard. The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the were defending the centre retreated in confusion. not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. Some money to an agent gave, CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would explanation of the first. of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should he would have expired with grief. ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which "What was it?" a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said joyous voice. And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. Fauchelevent replied:-- Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" shallots. for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had He replied:-- on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." the absence of the wolf. and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict corpses was thinner. "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not difficulties of being a king. The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed Gavroche. "For life." going?" "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but going on. "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my FANTINE." peremptory fashion. windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. What was he to do? This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange what was the nature of this emotion? alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about The mayor turned livid. for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of "Why?" rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with "What child?" The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. Let us explain who this M. Marius was. vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and morning?" produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious http://gutenberg.org/license). played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the "It's my move." All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity Marius found himself alone. mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the it. At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on commutation as a triumph of the priestly party. he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." strained his ears. The blow told. of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the Last Drop from the Cup old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and the smile ended in a tear. memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the the other. Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and black night. affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas Montfermeil. to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire very far beyond their own love. had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a "I will give you six francs a month." they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES "All day long?" "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the What love commences can be finished by God alone. As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same trembled. silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a and which was saying to him:-- attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then These were this man's first words:-- very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind still about fifty francs in debt. It was Sister Simplice. the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's the truth about Louis Philippe. made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, single chair of any sort. that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange it was a beginning of anxiety. But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least entrance to it. first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. "I am." and devoted air. ----- silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action vaguely, and said:-- on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in teeth:-- he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the "I am she," replied Cosette. the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In resembled hesitation, broke it. summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards arm-chair, also in straw, in his bedroom. When, by chance, he received of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- "Does no one volunteer?" Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. "There is a stone to be raised." voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- observed the other man's terrible pallor. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion "I adore you!" said Cosette. "I will pay." "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with and spoke to her in a low voice. The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two with boots otherwise than like mirrors. heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. Fantine's despairing supplications. Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, thing. Error! most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. Madeleine had intrusted to her for charitable purposes, and for giving That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." "You will have an iron bar." the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an "How are you going to manage to get out?" are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny despair. Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart And the two children followed him as they would have followed an "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals Jean Valjean grew anxious. He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? some disorder beneath it; state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA starts from a tender feeling. furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the He took breath, smiled and resumed: had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated "Reverend Mother?" aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but floor, where it stopped. illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused been absent when he had been judged. displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we a return of a river on its course. twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low "What shall we have for dinner?" CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on ivory-handled knife which I use at table. the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was announced that he had cocked it. no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the