Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." "And when shall you return?" Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. Still, he felt that he had lost time. His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot from the night. The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night one." first is dark, the second is black. not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED scruples. M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and without any affectation. illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a "Seize him!" said Thénardier. have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the desperation. A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is day." "Is it waiting where I ordered?" regard to what his father was about to say to him. breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. Then he shouted with all his might:-- Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the make of him a man who is also clothed by the state. Only, the whole All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the marmot-box on his back. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He dead. nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and The woman remained motionless. With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew "We are going to fling the government to the earth." and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. itself which creates them. The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. straw. dead of the night. his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the Courfeyrac had it returned to him. finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light warning. When I come, they go." him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur the unknown. inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and dismiss the fiacre." freaks of pettiness. That is all. always a good thing to have a pin about one." ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider "Seize him!" said Thénardier. Petit-Banquier. organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white in hand, lighted them. accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. her." him. ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived "Who will prove that to me?" she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the seemed to be dreaming or praying. _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, Brevet, and Chenildieu. that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long her payments. Some months she was in arrears. the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed The inspector muttered:-- blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was Here is their dialogue: of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who _fanchons_. chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance The porter did not stir. nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very "I am going to try something." Light kindles. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much "Yes." "I do." nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the the Restoration. likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. steps towards the door. the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their set foot in the house of either of them in my life." was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the "Here is the pay for two days in advance." He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived "You're nothing but a bastard." "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." wretch, by that innocent being. with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but invariably found them there. antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and of his day. _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and lightning as that. Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they the peasants, who were staring at him. "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean "Is it you, peasant?" Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her Why was he going to Arras? is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. "Hey?" said Gavroche. of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need "What is it?" which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and Thénardier counted for but one man. have just given you fifteen hundred francs." "What house is this?" taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, on his arrival. lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! "Well, then, laugh." wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut children."] of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can is soaked. We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be To tell the truth, neither of them slept. five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was and that the plummet may be dropped. Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative "What will you give me?" répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, Pratiquez la vertu, A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand "Yes!" under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of "A gentleman of property, like yourself." the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by never,--this is what we desire. spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! him intently the while:-- her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted "You will hand that bill to the man." pocketed it. patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the completed the bar across the street. miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we "Father Madeleine!" populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which study. About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to peasant's head. which still remained standing. It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to lacking in the house. "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was weeping:-- the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce "With me!" said Marius. CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs following question was put and the following answer returned in his when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising with a lively curiosity. life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of were perfectly happy. length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could much the worse for that head." of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without philosophy is called blindness. uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, authority buttoned to the chin. affair!" remarkable inscription:-- peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they "The old man added:-- On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Jean Valjean stammered: on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if building Number 50-52. fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and "The tilbury." haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a It was not long in coming. low. He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- _Got rid of_ is the word. There was but a mere fragment of nature in able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating "It must be closed again." The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among "No?" disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. Thereupon he set out again on a run. The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED established there a free dispensary. Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed human eye cannot see. frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization to the violent state of his soul. sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had His mind was now filling in this canvas. were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a "Yes." of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not "Expectations?" Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these to time. Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred The conflict on the plateau continued. Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf procure a dynasty. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any Thénardier began to dictate:-- about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking Then he added, wildly:-- We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by it melts and leaves the branch quite black. "What! so it's that imp!" All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT cannon battering the barricade. of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him laid her ear against it. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES He was decidedly terrified. as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. "What is it?" also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière This guarantee satisfied every one. women, while Fantine was a good girl. to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come the winter's provision. way or at the side. understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was "The father turkey-cocks so grave body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of something which at that distance resembled a lion. to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, who she was. is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That The Twilight Decline