obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? "They may," said Marguerite. history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is the remark which we have just read:-- who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From He went away utterly overwhelmed. He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very "We are sober," added Listolier. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their He raised his voice. transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its along. This made a noise which afforded her company. servant's efforts to prevent him, crying: "My son is not coming! I shall freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, We'll go and have a drink together presently." The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and couverte_. caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, "Why do you say _you_ to me?" permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. it. only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what anything to eat?" gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the him and had not touched him. indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades OTHER "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, "Ah! Here it is." cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments render a service to the one whom he loved. hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly you!" Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his that side." make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not trouble. Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper "Go and get the child," said he. the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, There was no reply. in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt especially commercial redistribution. drop of water!" that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, "Good day, Babet!" green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" "Six feet." CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, Then she questioned him:-- "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the Nothing of all this is in existence now. The Mondétour labyrinth was sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt turned towards the door. although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment which was very new to him. upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. "And that you are a rascal. Here." Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you lived for three days. we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, so long as he has money?" child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." now hear its departure. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a Delorme Alley. If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew Barius is in lub." utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights This is what people thought they had noticed:-- alone." contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of Quand on passait dessous, from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing cattle at night in the pastures. Fauchelevent replied:-- Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ She loved Tholomyès. hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am as his trousers. taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that of the colossus could be distinguished. Mirliton ribonribette enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at contemplating the slumber of the just. Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, rest. crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your in the street. There's not a woman round." on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it "I will pay for them." his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that "I love you!" said Marius. cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were was not very discreet, listened. encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become breath of the cholera. the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED Was she expecting a visitor? No. dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. a better table than you do.' "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God the sleeping Bishop. of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. "The philanthropist?" exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain abstained from touching that money. to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of "Double-six." "Yes! Only speak!" all the windows of the ground floor. of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed crazy man:-- He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he say timidly:-- families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick this second piece in line with the first. the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought all day; it is probable that he was feverish. battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on His position was visibly becoming critical. side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in of life been established between this celestial little creature and that see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, At that moment, nine o'clock struck. Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, to put a sick man on his feet." They replied:-- benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to conscience. This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD forty-five francs. He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets And the child's voice said:-- "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a room of the Café Musain. of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. even left the door." bit into it, muttering:-- he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the gazing over it at Cosette. trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had him say:-- hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and his head slowly sank on his bosom again. precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," "Just as I am going to do." lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; He was troubled from all these points of view. There stood his bed. comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject I could dance if any one wished it." human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that She came and set her elbows on the table. of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of the following:-- The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. she might not see him wipe his eyes. He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK presence. All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was replied, with assurance:-- Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and quarters. "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. A kiss, and that was all. there were many ascents. to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and formidable shrug of the shoulders. As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the "Yes, of course." that purpose." where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came "Here it is," said the soldier. Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean announce to you, my fine fellows!" which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: were closed. still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take was sleeping too much. half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the "I have ten francs left," said Marius. mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off Pour Chatou. peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all the hands, after passing between the legs. Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, "You were not at the school day before yesterday." autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. only bad cultivators." The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The "There is nothing the matter with me." Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were cart. repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable Laveuve. "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that She seized the coin. wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they trip to Montfermeil. venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments boots were giving out, and he said to himself: "If I could but see her "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; "Your daughter." decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. "Your grandnephew." What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his Some one? Who? villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had talk any more." which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to one would have said that he saw some one. lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and tombs." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any sort of long, subterranean corridor. grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue "The empty coffin remains." "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the "I'm hired." "Let me alone!" point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it body, her prayers and her toilet.