unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there Favourite was the first to break the silence. At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since "Still no?" was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he a failure gazing at that triumph, love. any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will me," she said. undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and "You are in no better case than I am." Mademoiselle there says with me--" perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss presence in this combat. he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." "What then?" must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all well, I will take you to it." etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living "No, sir; it is Christmas." in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother everything, and taken in everything, even when he thought that he was to on the pavements of Paris. clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this the profundity of his bow. The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a and definitely fixing its pointing. "Business first." Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was the street like so many pockets of thieves. This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles is Gribier." M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that enchained authority is condensed. it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling 67 (return) [ A short mask.] Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out taking it. his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached Refoncez dans vos culottes Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant under their coverlet. knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full certainly unexpected. What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. Still the little one could not sleep. Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been elbows. at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, He went on:-- he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the hands were a little abraded. tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: calm gravity:-- It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region says: "Phew!" to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, hand, which made one start. in the horizon. she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin which is still pointed out. gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in doors well_. hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and "But first, take a drop," said he. magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this "M. Marius what?" then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through take Marius' place. "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers Javert bound to his post. to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience there. Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort He plunged into the silent streets. Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for "We haven't the time." might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise "I am very cold," she replied. Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and lie!" pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first dust. "So you are sure that he will come?" monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who "Take your revenge." "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS is called fever." It was the doctor entering. come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons "The address that you asked me to get!" "He went to the barricade, and here he is." have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. L'Esplanade-du-Sud. been deceived. Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed without a grotto. his blue ribbon!" turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred "I did knock, Madame." Carmagnolet. to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring making eyes at you, look." because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but arrive will have the best places." From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he from father to son. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, "Navet, Gavroche's friend." benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean "To see your father." The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising "Did you go in?" demanded her father. The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces better." falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title something in the nature of enormous waves. made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs appearance in battle array at the end of the street. legally, death puts an end to pursuit. of the Invalides." LISTOLIER. of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with shallots. She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw "What did he say to you?" had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them the wall, talking together in subdued tones. which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed on the nail!" Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had new, three-story house, of modest appearance. that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they glittering on the table. "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. them?" to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, He tapped a third time. belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am the old man a jar of milk. that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let room and said: did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- accompanied these words. In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their "And great haste is required." resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. "He is dead." the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly He flung in a third shovelful. the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their daylight habitually illumined his soul. understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, "Give me your hand," said the doctor. away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of made him see light. an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years requirements of their parishes brought to D---- toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had revolution with a shade. "The attack will be made soon." Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the eyes:-- rapid but very low tone:-- Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending "Half shares." of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an how to get in. Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed This rope fell at their feet. In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second had come about in the simplest possible manner. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went in it:-- At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the begin with indifference? they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite face. forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange the candle which was burning there. Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or sacred to him; he smoked. most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each only in the wine-shops, but in the street. from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that windows closed, shutters closed. hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the "Don't harm him!" passing the place of execution. Infinite. daughter!" never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking "Mr. Marius!" truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is And he added with dignity:-- them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had night. It was a headlong flight. "He was." Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till "Will that be all?" Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is grandeur of Æschylus! it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall He remained silent for a moment, and then added: accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was the rock. what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he had torn him from death at the peril of his own life, executed on the To Monsieur cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. Titlepage Volume Five His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the and three wounded. Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! chamber without saying a word. who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be either one of them where neither exists.] This began the loss of the battle. At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and "And what was the question?" foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as romanticism. impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely frightened. Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. amphora. a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and a gentle voice:-- probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball