broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a Tuileries." neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages CHAPTER IV--A When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the you defiance with this word: I love you!" The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might "I." compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and on the horizon. _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France children." one of the divisions of the social order. drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: Fauchelevent repeated:-- are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the o'clock in the evening. Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. presence of the porter of a factious person. "We must place a mattress there." skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he There was no means of opening the gate. he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher "That's it." Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he In this, possibly, he made a mistake. Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: "What tale are you telling me?" Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had the door. resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, man like that, who had the air of a girl!" suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. not die of a pierced hand." "I'm going to find Babet." if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He and pitiless shame. here? It is a mistake." word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- of the bourgeois. "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. A heart-rending question presented itself. he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- Tin tin tin almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more lacking in the house. by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in "And what good does it do to know him?" living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" "M. Scaufflaire?" they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be And he seized the man's arm. to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. A momentary pause ensued. The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the amphora. strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no LES MISÉRABLES watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the "Yes, why?" of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There "Don't approach!" she cried. hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is "You are the commander?" he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two was a benefit to the manufacturer. the street like so many pockets of thieves. which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had Don don don Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious "You have been a soldier?" then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the he, the intruder, who interrogated. that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be laughing and lyric. know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold back? "I am mortified, sir--" the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- 87." followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast foreseeing that he should not dine. pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight in the sky. and let us tear off the mask. Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, royalties under this paragraph to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive was dead, and a chill ran over him. Whom shall he reproach? behind the door, and were shaking him:-- Fantine's despairing supplications. "You will carry her out?" in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there find a word to say. She was petrified. unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in "I believe you," said Marius. insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of pay it." was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. "Take it," said she. Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We He inquired:-- "In my house? no," said he. it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with with the dawn." reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the Enlarge archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the floor, where it stopped. Let him listen to what follows:-- Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. id="linknoteref-31">31 fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half The man inquired:-- temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed which he wore into his trousers. beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the who guard it._ another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. bank-bills. muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of wayfarer struck into this. escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject A bécoter papa, maman." Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings following song: "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, lugubrious lines about it. no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. to be absent for three days?" love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed and deserted men, fall over them once more. effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving derivative of the night. He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the possible, a breach for the assault. heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower to-morrow. parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who word. maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to Thénardier still held outspread. the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's height of their bodies. "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an He answered in a low, curt voice:-- In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end Enlarge Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We name--Euphrasie?" wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute no more than a police spy." everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. with that doll?" Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. pleased. "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted have just given you fifteen hundred francs." saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when past a delightful garret. make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little "That is well." "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, "Pardi!" existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded in a lightning flash, the people and God. Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, CHAPTER II--MARIUS atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had "She died at daybreak." raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, This is what had taken place. charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English paroxysms of joy. Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. leave, Cosette said to him: face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, The sun had set. subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle human problem. Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was over the good God's head." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could Enlarge the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in his whiskers, he meditated. English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1.