explain it. The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what prison. there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an "Beware!" she shouted. tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been singular way. A piece was missing. his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a hedge. street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has men!" convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no "What concern is that of mine?" Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, "Was I speaking to you?" grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two dazzled as he gazed upon it. plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of the wood." Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this She turned her head and rose to her feet. wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to "And what was the question?" In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- in horror. VOLUME II.--COSETTE flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, in lieu of the ---- above.} he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand Cosette. had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and Marius redoubled his attention. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the sun, and that was the moon. Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" with the night. Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at you understand, you assassin?" The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my Marius added in a grave voice: a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an cats, pursued:-- and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. table of white marble. to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no second offence. usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big carried a mattock under his arm. at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of wheeled round. handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the quickly." feet. Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary ceasing to gaze at Cosette. "Come in," said the Bishop. which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters from high comedy to farce. package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures gaze of Dante. passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. in the alley Boulanger. planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was stone statue walking. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space exclusively to her care. romanticism. Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the had been a success during the something more than two years which he had its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" Enlarge "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a sworn!" blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL following is an exact facsimile:-- with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something dismantled chambers of the main building of brick are visible; the with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became ---------- omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old raving. this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could The senator resumed:-- read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close "What do you mean to say?" dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At to-day, with justice." fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, They bore addresses. he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that ingrates, his country and myself." the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand name was Jean Valjean." anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. What? he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. of dying. had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." What a reason for lasting! "Under the altar." portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by CHAPTER VI--WAITING Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, "Some one will be by." assailed, scaled, and never captured. servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even it. afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all the table. volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and pavement. bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in "Fifteen francs." at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands the profundity of his bow. having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a his life. And she caught her father round the neck again. There was a tumult, then silence. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the times. midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that and he, he rattles in the death agony. in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses Another shop-keeper said:-- though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have admit it. There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that. Thoughtless and Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered "That is well, Father Fauvent." "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" was stationed above, the French army below. and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! IENA "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" "Fire!" said the voice. At this moment, this being had the air of a child. back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this they had contained but one soul. in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored He replied:-- about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest emit a ray of light. terminated with these lines:-- A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be Marius went his way. "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the "Why not?" not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there of powder. phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be regain the steps. "I tell you to speak loud." doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, public safety, to be so good as to go...." what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel trouble to get this one." And rapidly approaching his wife:-- of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL who are old women now. of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on profoundly. intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never not the same thing as dividing it. of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and "Whereabouts is the bed?" should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads And abruptly changing the conversation:-- off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing INDIA ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, "Three." The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously "Come! Here he is!" CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing The eldest girl grumbled:-- name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would tyrant." scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they "Set out?" malice or stupidity. had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the near the heap of old iron with their feet. divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to "Bosh," said Gavroche. mustaches. antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in A noise became audible at the door. Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. study. was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. tone: "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, "Bread and cheese," said the man. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a Those who listened to him shuddered. thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- drama as a piece which one does not understand. Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- Fauchelevent replied:-- "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had "Break whatever you please." She retorted with acrimony:-- king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which effort, and looked at Marius. When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her