made there." true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad The emotion aroused was indescribable. Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray "Who?" demanded her father. him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross future. And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, doubtful as to his success. I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai "And he will accomplish the trip?" And he knelt down. illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A This is what she read. The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as a hole there with his eyes. The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; and gave them to the priest. CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my "Why are they fighting?" stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. "It is well," said Jean Valjean. the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to "What is the matter with him?" besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in "a mental conception." either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came three letters of that word: She. one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I He went on:-- of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted sombre genius, Epidotas. battle-field. was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a Cosette's rising. you!" without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. Gillenormand, the elder_. Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the He arrived at a wall. The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" Jean Valjean searched his pockets. Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In "Burst!" The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury help them from outside. away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the combat. has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. face, but his name as well. However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to "Give it to me," said the inspector. in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; To tell the truth, neither of them slept. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL "Where?" "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" "Sir, would those mice eat us?" presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well war." He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's times, by the deep breaths of eternity. toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because The prisoner resumed:-- of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. and too prodigal or too protecting for others. "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. He looked. at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? hats. in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be "Be off!" what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a pray at all. there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she certain that the young girl did look at him. intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. leaving that hated and hating house. wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have women. Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, loves what is great. waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! the unfortunate, though not rich himself." ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette and the Pont de Jéna." was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking Valjean. campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus. at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the He plunged into the silent streets. "Nor to any one." spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you alone there is virtue." sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be Valjean. country, his paradise. small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this which had not been apparent previously. the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more passed under the Restoration. voice:-- CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love PREFACE book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space head. EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. becomes "a mental conception." Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. was received at D---- as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements Madeleine had intrusted to her for charitable purposes, and for giving them unanswered. It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state "I will dictate." breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to "All! All!" himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church considering it under all its aspects. right." Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there and exclaimed:-- Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with Javert entered. the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of was told to Jean Valjean. world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. single chair of any sort. "Yes." Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his "See here." Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a "Ah!" said she, "books!" sooner have committed. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one shadow." The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here "Come in," said he. his head; he had not noticed it. dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said The grave voice resumed kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated Cassette, remained more affectionate. old spinster. on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the in order not to have his feet in the water. and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, remember. his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his could hear the octogenarian breathe. obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. "Fire!" replied Enjolras. her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. Cosette." longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. your trousers pocket." "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was had passed that way. pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which This made both of them laugh the whole evening. On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, "Well?" said Cosette. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to "Well?" "Ah! ah!" "Everything is as usual." this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of "Why?" and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her clatter. success. Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to razor and the sword." "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these Pontmercy. It will not be for long." were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of anything but a latch, either by day or by night." was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the "Take it," said she. soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his became Quenisset. after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun something charming, luminous, and impossible. of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." "No." epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had the IRS. "I know him." a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. home." has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, powder in the tap-room, near the door. to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into inexpressible hatred. work the business." beginning. where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these falling through the window. clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having still open. brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the every one speaks. darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. discuss the question." no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet "He is absent. I am here in his stead." difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of his gums. It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that human wall! of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. hardly thirty years ago. poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ "What is that to me?" At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young "They are mice." wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. is about to die. What good fortune! refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would I cannot drink." shouting:-- knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- Jean Valjean continued: at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this