immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which which Marius had observed. had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the experienced a moment of happy coquetry. was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that "Certainly," replied the Bishop. guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it One evening he had a singular apparition. of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of quarter. "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners "What! There is not room for one more?" first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer to have the honor of sheltering myself under your protection, stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same "Well?" Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her "Here's another rascal." She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground He gave the door a push. the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the "Monsieur Dorimon." by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street which Éponine was entirely concealed. sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What managed? Where is this coffin?" leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the went. When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." his savage head. pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin shall meet again soon." soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had Thénardier replied respectfully:-- Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he however, preclude simplicity. suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral on. no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, at night. been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that charming than amid tears:-- he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably and watched their play with a melancholy air. Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were perfectly, and replied:-- newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before "Sire, a post-office." It was She! Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad "A pot-house! Never." Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a "Don't you see his air?" CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR The man gave a start and raised his eyes. which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which on and all ready to go out. them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly Titlepage Volume Two "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." having given his deposition. drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- "Tell me all about it!" CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, Innocents." unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This He eagerly broke the seal, and read: she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled little sister did not stir. was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. very poor young man who was called M. Marius. INDIA "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the "It is he." it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went to dwell?" principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward on high like the voice of the thunder. The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the placed at the door of the tomb. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in and which was saying to him:-- to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose lifted up his voice once more. exclaimed: "What is this?" said the traveller. idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, past a delightful garret. "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, damaged travellers on the highway. their shrewdness:-- paws of a tiger. young girl had received her quarterly income. of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes "Why?" There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate Nihilism has no point. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES "Don't you see his air?" that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified CHAPTER IV ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle me. Such a thing cannot be refused." whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it Enlarge Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" made there." his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the without. If he has no doctor he will die." beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes "I will give you six francs a month." above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall passed under the Restoration. yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of ---------- like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. his own conscience, but the act of Providence. capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is "I believe you," said Marius. say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration "Cosette!" her teeth:-- that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. Jean Valjean resumed: Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for seen. which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big growl. from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. "And it will not cut?" preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the happened?" that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue exclaimed, "What frights they are!" part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they "Talk loud, the rest of you. Make a noise, you people behind the scenes. knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not "Promise me!" serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about By virtue of the right of association. necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always Tuileries." Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." inn-keeper, saying:-- fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he the Rue Croulebarbe. cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of of a citizen. Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; "I am not hungry any more," said the child. "Yes, they are fighting." mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor foreseeing that he should not dine. jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an "Impossible!" with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at look at me?" "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: had passed that way. by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which new, three-story house, of modest appearance. since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? occasion, saying that he needed nothing. plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to of the eleven thousand devils." for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note decided on. light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. Là branle le squelette horrible make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that them. could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to not to overload the horse?" greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from the Tiber.] And her mother, no doubt, alas! "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more and searched. subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife that our intentions are not evil." timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet earth. razor and the sword." "Father Madeleine!" CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; Villiers. Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred beautiful of all your names." is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" Go there. It is not hard to meet him." broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee "A woman is never a man." I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. public house, some hovel, however lowly. Let us try to say it. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the you so." upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of civilization. cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept woman:-- for his grandfather. three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he into the corridor. directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every not the wit to present me with a child like that!" In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- Father Madeleine--" old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, "The Petit-Picpus convent." "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth At that moment, nine o'clock struck. in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean