attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING was a benefit to the manufacturer. One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of and Death!" "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into suspended from the ribbon. and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR Javert turned his back. owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a Marius had halted for a moment. of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a lily. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, end in the monosyllable, No. "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF "Have you the keys to those two doors?" the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How appeared to limp. M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a "Silver?" "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their As for the man, he was the same as usual. exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was 30 (return) [ A democrat.] exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an "Javert--" "For what purpose?" all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the something of heaven through holiness. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the existence. service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of in accord. Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on This is what Waterloo was. by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, taciturnity was of the beaming order. everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his 25, 1823. The two children followed close on his heels. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one Jondrette replied sweetly:-- served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost The boy surveyed her. The others were men; these were women. at the moment. than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their the Rue de Chaffaut. "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." public letter-writer. the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. capable of exclamation:-- be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed church." dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not dust. It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, "It is so solitary here." murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of "I will pay whatever you ask." larger with the proud light within them. elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a M. Leblanc uttered not a word. for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His Marius reeled and said feebly:-- He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which can be changed in them." "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its "With what?" audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE on his boots. creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! elixirs. Javert: times. thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- "Wait until the day after to-morrow." time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, broken. unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. "How many bushels?" hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. "How much shall you need?" with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in and returned to the barricade. block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had _cadets_ and _fauchants_. he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and what it termed our encroachments were our rights. One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a heaven. It was necessary to begin there." He listened. One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet "You are doing well." them. on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful "After us!" yelled the ruffians. "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the Bahorel answered:-- in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." And she sank down as though on the point of death. sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt "Why?" punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones enormous, ENORMOUS dog." his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove Jondrette the father:-- _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one conscience. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. He paused, and then resumed:-- Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- "Well then?" this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government Wednesday; but not for the birds." having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and rest. was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- unfolding this paper. Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, the language of wretchedness. dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more pinioned, he helped him to drink. "Yes," said she. vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in Esquimaux tent. smoke. uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance him--his father and his country. spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large following, addressed to "the federates":-- _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ "Hey?" said Gavroche again. "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a "He is dead." in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, floor, where it stopped. charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. 1.E.9. them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the consent. We will drink. After work, never before." the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was coping of the wall had been torn away. have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. "What am I to do with a stone?" going on; they hardly heeded this detail. at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; that he uttered:-- nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught "So much the worse." is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted brain and the actions of his life! his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking Cosette: bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the body, her prayers and her toilet. mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, the evening. "I." antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three great one, Jeanne's, still held out. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not going on; they hardly heeded this detail. his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, knocker and rapped. dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still attention to him." the number. what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, "No." which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND there is your shadow with the round hat." in becoming an honest man." The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And the language of wretchedness. who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. about the country-side, and caused great consternation. 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged the window. "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and "What jade is this?" society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his that he had actually been guilty of theft. workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.