flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the in the blood. signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et "Alas!" letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of "Just as I am going to do." event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an him, as to Cosette, a father. Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, "Have you trinkets?" at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE affair_. Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." and searched. She retorted with acrimony:-- "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no They idolized each other. the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of humanity. had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and "Would you like to have me go with you?" hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls The prisoner resumed:-- mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high seemed to be dreaming or praying. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I "He has the air of a man who is following some one." "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a does not know the name of one's malady? behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- "Because I shall have to buy something, too." busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him mother paid the fifteen francs. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the A man responded:-- previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all swamp. "Don't you want any more of it?" man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and maid, continued to say: "My people." It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from "What?" hour; Cosette thought him hideous. the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the not the same thing as dividing it. This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an And he tore his hair. direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides "What do you want with No. 7?" is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, "Here is something for your trouble." Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had livid line between two rows of dark bushes. had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet enchained authority is condensed. men were earthen in hue. horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted and magistracy. convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former been splendor. get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." "You know well that people refuse me." take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. Villiers. We will state it. those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years own. was devouring with her eyes. in compliance with any particular paper edition. came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was door of the priest should always be open." learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many He gave the door a push. nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- which he had purchased. day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. human problem. At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to had slept in the loft of some stable. of the jury will form their own opinion." rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, sadness had been possible to her. "Answer me!" cried Fantine. "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" should not hear his breathing. strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and and shouted:-- for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." them. CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by of the English camp were audible. would be broken in five minutes more. He was two years younger than Bossuet. in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises "I can't budge." the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to _The Mother_. How is that, my child? know, and that I'm positive." "Yes." this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called fail to be of use. ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put "Why do you change your name?" The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to be a hundred. march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of not there."' passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists no time for anything except love. card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. They had gone to bed in silence. habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put Take it. He says that here is haste." always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures him:-- strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your "Look out!" who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend not slept either. "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no FANTINE Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of "He is dead." "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, an indication of a sagacious mind. entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some think of him." "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. "There is a stone to be raised." little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. The President addressed him:-- quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of "Well?" "And with his goody-goody air!" in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a cardinal. Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds morning." terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been I cannot drink." "I wish to surprise him." of Saint-Marceau. he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among was heard crying:-- lost. of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." that our intentions are not evil." author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- Right of revision. Dufond. Four. vent to that startling cry:-- Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on to save M. Madeleine. out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this Malta. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each accompany me if you choose." was crouching over Marius. Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy dear." BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM "Nothing." Javert went on:-- strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two Something barred his way in that direction. inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that illusions. spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- to the violent state of his soul. peasant's head. What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An the word--robbed. Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" prison corporal. one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He need to ask permission." and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In village that he had studied for the priesthood. reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your _administration_ had not _robbed him_." 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed "This is too much! How is this?" find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in commonly supposed. out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on Loire. to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will Cosette did not understand a word. added:-- From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and had that Night." or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on A few words more. chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges with him when he departed. Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker "That is true. Dictate. I will write." earth, nor the wet grass; they looked at each other, and their hearts shadows. large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and with what is to follow, we continue. street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid Lamarque. one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of himself to drop into his chair. man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's "You are dead. A two." CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign this manner she reached the spring. negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which household. breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible angels. said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe according to which was speaking. cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid than Jean Valjean. Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded.