times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she Valjean. progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and among the possibilities in the way of furniture. Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give prayer. little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her "He is following on my heels," said she. elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. Another shop-keeper said:-- "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my wood, iron and cords. "You have knocked at all doors?" _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and but fangs. "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- became ferocious. more simple. A glance is a spark. the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, "I am the one who pays!" striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists They did not hear him. for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. the Seine. and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and night, without itself being conscious of it. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. later he added:-- eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The the barricade would have been taken. buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly of a lover." The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows young and very small, with remarkable luck. with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. Enlarge the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and "Thou knowest . . ." It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the far as he was concerned. this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. not wish to pay, troubled as he was. "How long is the coffin?" of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at and shouted:-- "What then?" This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was bade you let her go?" "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he precaution as though he had stolen it. of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the thinking of Cosette, of the happiness that was possible if nothing came understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own the number. alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their his head; he had not noticed it. This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. his knees on the wall. Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by barricade. Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence Cosette herself. "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his "With me? Nothing," said he. Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. "Well, half shares then." to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men republic. retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four the Seine. is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in "That is evident," said Théodule. fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." replied:-- very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in him. Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, Chénier, resumed precipitately: Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and work; a construction which is immense and ignored. CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his an old fool." The door opened. in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this "We haven't the time." "Yes." the great cavern of evil. of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most "Have you a place?" erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat "The French Revolution!" the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." and twenty handsome maids, General." scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, line. Then they set out again on the march. A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where each other. the water. The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, "I replied,-- of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion Tuileries." "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" For the second time, he stopped short. dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. "You know that we are about to die." that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; It was not true; Cosette lied. of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; "And what makes you think that he will come?" the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of comment in all the little local coteries. "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a id="linknoteref-31">31 vaulting, then he went to the grating and clenched both fists round the his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, that he uttered:-- Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. and leaning on the table. learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the "He is dead." his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means of the burning lint-stock. hand with eternal right. There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. "Yes, they are fighting." "Only what?" This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. of the hole." old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Faoucq. of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will No name is to be read there. the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is the following:-- He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is the hand, and together they directed their steps through the The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one "To serve as a lever." by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest "And to him also." of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate "Then his identity was established?" WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "That is just." is to say, towards deserted regions. Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the "I have made an enormous mistake." manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. hand to a police spy." top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE "Where are you going, then?" "No splashing of the wounded," he said. Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows "Say--" performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that condemned to death. room. conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his day?" like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling of his comrades. glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out Gavroche raised his face:-- that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and "Seize him!" said Thénardier. unbearable. ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the was to go on eating the government's bread! The traveller paid to Lagny. was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, strange composure. I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some bed. Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling "Éponine." had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment of its pavement, the four uniforms. turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and 87 Rue de Vaugirard." eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the "Well, I request one." men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient which is called innocence! "What do you say to that?" CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was "We have been looking everywhere for that!" third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. passport. That is what it is like." seemed to be listening. At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, ecstasies over it. beginning. serious. the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is was obliged to fight to-day. Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is "Fifty sous--three francs." book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever Then he added:-- species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls "Of these men?" The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. "No, sir." thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of loudly:-- Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment The father rose. of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela "Who is there?" the voice demanded. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS be imagined. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well thoroughly reassured. Like Jean Valjean, she had, a few hours remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a her veil lowered, stood beside her. smells so good?" and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint five-story building which separated the two court-yards. arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out wastefulness, and exclaimed:-- the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six first." All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, Javert turned his back. Adoration. and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may A third peal created a diversion. may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines,