the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The has already lasted half a century. were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of much did you say that you owed?" awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; CHAPTER III--THE LARK like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One aperture. He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then Father Champmathieu on Trial Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests "Why did you not bring it at once?" there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with might. lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. houses. when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about second soul, the right. he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the boulevard. on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the hours of weakness. united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed table. violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap No. 17." were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized to earn that?" Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but start, "Go away!" antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests teeth:-- This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. repeated:-- She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; Enlarge CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part in it:-- The woman shook her head. Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. charge is decreased. power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his address, indeed!" "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent hither?" and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean glittering on the table. spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an them unanswered. procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly like the fly serving the spiders. too late." the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and girls trembled and dropped their eyes. This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. "O modesty!" said Marius. his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption a reading-desk. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the Président only admits public functionaries to them." right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice take Marius' place. his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on The first problem contains the question of work. Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he Jean Valjean suspected nothing. without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces "What do you mean to do, my dear?" very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of him. was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and children." assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally "Do not weep," he said. situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the rehabilitation of Napoleon. riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose more." a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of not there."' gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. He paused, and then said:-- consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually children." "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song existence. constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent "Very cold. It is snowing." Pour Pantin. the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and Tutu, chapeau pointu!