the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be impossible, as a woman without children. ended. malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile Carmagnolet. be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, Minette. is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend to affect the netting under which the three children lay. You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, to have patience. It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own CART It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for great age permitted. was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that very softly. Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. At that moment, Cosette awoke. This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, and approached the door. "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? like the fly serving the spiders. The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is This guarantee satisfied every one. the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would She shook her head and added:-- promontory." Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with works. See paragraph 1.E below. possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. me. Such a thing cannot be refused." by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable prayer. the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE "I shall have a ladder for these children." archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his accents:-- that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the We will state it. sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. the room. CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed that is to say, terrible. old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed Gavroche replied:-- All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la display them? is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should his forefinger gently with his thumb. other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ to wear my scar?" something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders "Yes, Babet." forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange "I'm going to put these infants to bed." papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." Jean Valjean began again:-- "What house is this?" sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, "OUR BELOVED:-- "Monsieur Mabeuf!" not even a roof over their heads." Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" long. Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to succession over her soul. others,--would have been a disorganized flight. and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was table: by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter never entering the women's workroom. him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. "Write," said he. him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three behind her. father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not "No." Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of "Received thy cart." "Excellent." Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always "Informed against me!" "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." He continued to advance. "While, at present, I am relieved." _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in "Precisely." "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, teeth:-- cart-wheels. aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was "I am going to die presently." He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it "Yes." drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to earth. that Bauduin was killed. others; a second later, all six were reunited. These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that And he set out on the march once more. shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast The lad asked for no further enlightenment. Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property is not a caste. appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties his steps. Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of middle of the room, and said:-- Marius redoubled his attention. cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain which he was singing, he shouted:-- ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived And the bystanders laughed. replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a with a pike. you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we assumed an expression of hatred. We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; agrees with Talleyrand." Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.