rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without "It is well," said Jean Valjean. post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was floated off towards the roof. Mother Ascension and yourself." "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, vivaciously:-- judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of name="linknoteref-29" id="linknoteref-29">29 he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good to the violent state of his soul. resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no with a smile. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first Red Hot Chisel defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for "Twenty francs," said the old woman. garden and we are done for." than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only "Dismiss the carriage!" accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which "You, Mr. Mayor." What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished a warning." And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, Enlarge When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" everywhere.] we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most points of their bayonets. proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of "I say, 'Famous!'" bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied Dante in folio nous servait de table as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. it may be, the utility which it contains. "That is true," replied the man. M. Gillenormand went on: arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the "You are right; read!" "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the "What is the name of yonder man?" threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. Lark." not even himself, had taken any notice:-- his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in A murmur of consternation arose. branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street "Yes." the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he "Ram that into your muzzle." The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time He was even the author of the monumental window. many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- day in the house!" Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I She came and set her elbows on the table. Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips into the street!" which had descended to him from his own grandmother. possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at voices were heard calling from the well. published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll I was born again." he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the Javert continued: round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to she did so:-- CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA queer when you have had no food." The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of "There is enough food there for twenty." the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned the young tree which is sawed off at the root? The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more post should perceive your presence." nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius the inspector called to him:-- you." "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the now hear its departure. he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became with lightning. done." less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a id="linknoteref-63">63 "The empty coffin remains." night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from ecstatic. battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was He glanced at the cloud. at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing Poussagrive. aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. the half-open door, visible only to his wife. under side of civilization. existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute lodger_, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he seen. being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he cried all the evening lay asleep. a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier half an hour. twilight aspect. flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it the sky. made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with movement, like a person who is just waking up. "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible Being." CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR to him:-- all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. even saw the sun. Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a become august. He had just expired. At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half A third peal created a diversion. an uninhabited house. the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the Enlarge CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a "Why?" beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be "Here are the reds!" Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. was not furnished; there was not even a chair. out his candle. Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the decisive questions. she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of around them had fallen into a hole. They lived in a golden minute. There Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his "Yes." Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Fauchelevent replied:-- Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. faith. We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, "philanthropist" had left with him. property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? surprising could be seen. moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. "Oh, yes, father." block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his who was sleeping therein. A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood "As you like, father," said Cosette. of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer _administration_ had not _robbed him_." again. 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an "See here." He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a Only . . ." La nuit on ne voit rien, of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in to you." breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed The two women pursued their chat. "Me!" said Jean Valjean. discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have outlet. This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. dear." There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the "Quin?" "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought at the lass." "Be off!" longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they the portrait!" One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and as they passed by. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the She went on:-- As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little "Are you a police spy, sir?" other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." It was here that Jean Valjean stood. back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round something else. panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. to attach it. The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both not to flinch again. that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous "Iron forks and spoons, then." "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- by passion. him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was "Have not you an intimate friend?" CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from wished to retain her features for eternity. in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of Madeleine." CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED of Fantine. and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say Laigle rubbed his hands. of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons Valjean. of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." crowd about it. pursuing some one. lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye was black in consequence of a of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. name of Paradise. Enlarge Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat All at once she paused. surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN word Will. to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an already has some idea of it. he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, "To get out!" me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose One last word about Fantine. Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and