"FANTINE." if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, "As if he were the only father." "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no countenance. bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. And the two children followed him as they would have followed an He gave the door a push. grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly watered the whole garden. knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS crumbling away. whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname and shouting:-- to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by Javert. One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the Cosette nodded gravely. realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" added:-- "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering and stood with her mouth wide open. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams arrival, in terrified somnolence. Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison M. Leblanc took the pen. of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. counterfeit!" the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the "Yes," replied Javert. It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed "Will that be all?" tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, outburst of inward laughter. female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks space of fifteen years. about the country-side, and caused great consternation. but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his grandfather resumed:-- A heart-rending question presented itself. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength "What time is it?" Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from lightning as that. left for him to desire. impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by and soul like a north wind. Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron List of Illustrations The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, pray at all. of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed the great annoyance of the sick person. She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking "They will not open." scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate with the night. complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." is the continuation of the last doll. a quittance from the past. approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one commanded the assailants. required now." take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" "Nor to any one." would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to know, and that I'm positive." "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made raised his head with an air of stupefaction. cart-wheels. who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a Neuilly-sur-Marne. ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even All this was yawning before him. word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all waiting." manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, arrive will have the best places." Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two counterfeit!" eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil young girl had received her quarterly income. day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the "You are in no better case than I am." it to Madame Magloire. bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying trembling voice:-- it. which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his belly!" occasion of his entering that coach, and that he had already, on the Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked tomb. a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE past with the future. wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be Let us return to the ship _Orion_. The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his "Soon." Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as "Shoot me," said Enjolras. possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the had slept in the loft of some stable. On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, always rises on naked corpses. dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- "We owe three quarters rent." which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if "Never." Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in battle. over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on not so. preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that remains only a doll. go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." "Yes, that's it," said she. in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in with his accustomed placidity:-- understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" low voice said to him: remained. spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, expressive whirl. within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the said:-- official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did invisibility. And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU President:-- Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It "Alas!" a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. completed the bar across the street. need to ask permission." Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: phrase well:-- perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left as though he had just heard it:-- embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been clouds as they turned rosy. "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. Red Hot Chisel and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his the sleeping Bishop. In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which in hand, lighted them. amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the doubtful as to his success. Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not very hungry." love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for You will be paid for all the little things. Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory to him:-- He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket Fantine's despairing supplications. it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased to scratch one's self." "That is the thought which occurred to me." stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black "Elsewhere." The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" "He was a convict." the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become a child. of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one She went on:-- human misery. The old woman strained her lungs. Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to Phrygian cap. there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which "We have confidence in you." "Twenty-three francs!" an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the I'm standing treat." terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his in which she was still pretty. stood near him:-- "worked for his living and stole"? this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON L'amour de ma mère, zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a himself. came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew "And the money?" inquired the woman. to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better And this was simply divine. armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female "Why?" "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that partitions which all open on either vice or crime. The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy "How does one get it?" As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He within him, and of all that was working there? That is something Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned he, the intruder, who interrogated. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- over:-- recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, mingled with bursts of grape-shot. thou wilt smile." a quittance from the past. "Well! to la Rapée." the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The Right is the just and the true. reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in been absent when he had been judged. Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they shed. of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "Received thy cart." actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks What verses? These:-- Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never And she left the room. the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, billows of the invisible; he shouts. covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of that prowler. vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was