all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the outlet. It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible his blue ribbon!" silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- in tone: of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, "That is possible." not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a "Long live the Republic!" up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted He turned, and beheld Javert. mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. better off with him than with me." constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at Jean Valjean gently. woollen stockings and blankets." particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers "Father!" said she. to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, himself. "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up "Why do you say _you_ to me?" "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my sparrow; the child is called the gamin. peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can "And what reply did you receive?" of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his throughout the immense mystery of stars. covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a MUNICIPAL POLICE In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty fail. frightful hands!" All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the about him: scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. And he pushed them towards what we are very glad to be able to call the "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing Fauchelevent replied:-- made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns and of illusion. a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc "There are lone women," said Guelemer. "You know that signature?" resumed the man. Now, he had just failed in this. keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; "Are you alone there?" before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words the door. conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be revolution with a shade. round:-- At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the the vehicle. you! You are an ingrate!" On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. interrogated. he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. in that manner? The Grand Army. "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the me." dream. himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish perceived neither Basque nor the candle. "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured "At Saint-Lazare." up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." voice. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back "He's an old duffer." without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance "Fabantou," replied the girl. of the preceding day had actually come. where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" was transfigured into Christ. shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient Marius had paid for two. Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was This is what she read. Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There right or to the left. "How many are there of them?" as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the Jean Valjean had been recaptured. Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial here to this sketch. One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was "At my house." the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! hundred crowns. duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to humanity, explained. masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the stupid majesty which befits white creatures. tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are "That old fellow?" speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the existed, they would have been invented there. "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to Only the little lark never sang. behind him. Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue to be rehung. most valuable of the lot." my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." No name is to be read there. having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste "You wished to be Madame. You are so." An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a table. At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are thought no more about it. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly the five francs to the young girl. of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. "Let me sleep here,--until I die." killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome of her bones two months previously. And he turned to Jean Valjean: this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore The Grandeurs of Despair inquired:-- form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the Veuvain." at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! one is going to die." And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, Ah, good gracious!" pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps the most natural manner in the world. is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little No, from the point of view of the individual. illusions. And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression precaution as though he had stolen it. carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You Favourite listened with profound attention. retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in The wicket closed again. presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his regulated their employment accordingly. Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently "It is very droll," said Zéphine. former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." the army hurled itself on the barricade. Fury now became skill. A ecstasies over it. too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception And who, with gentle hands, do clear Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the gentleness. poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now theirs." obeyed." J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this of Paris." successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of chair. Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful Refoncez dans vos culottes Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." and a stove?" bend down to the people. as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. Friends of the A B C nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? say timidly:-- Gavroche's lodging. first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and Evil One." He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and Marat. him examining the gate with great attention. _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not light to shine through. "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. "Why?" haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. "But you ought to have a maid." I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or immediately gone on duty again, which implied--the note, the reader will "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. him: And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, the rhododendron was happy now. "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to is there. Social phthisis is called misery. Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a "Yes, reverend Mother." "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing The mattress now hung by one thread only. anything to eat?" simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's Nothing had happened. "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in hundred thousand francs with you!" de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, each other there. I want to know it." This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but take any notice of this sad side of his success. I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or "I shall have a ladder for these children." "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island He! insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the Cromwell. "Marius!" He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed returned quite late at night. In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some on the spot." one. well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT man was effaced; such is life. shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of VOLUME I.--FANTINE. those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the "That's settled," said the grandfather. The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well Second problem: To share it. have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the one else. "What! There is not room for one more?" successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the that case it skimmed the streets. towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred was sleeping too much. "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming These men left to political parties the question of rights, they