The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There "Yes." manure, on the other hand, is gold. Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with mother paid the fifteen francs. When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason "I am very sorry--" on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." "Without suspecting it," said the woman. before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, amid the shadows! she did so:-- He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may in horror. Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a "I do not know." germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, Then he experienced a giddiness. creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. round and seized the doll in a transport. quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you which contains an idea of torture and abasement. melts in love, which is its sun. she had a black hole in her mouth. fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and the houses. arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine Enlarge There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." The barricade was captured. "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" And to the ventriloquist:-- features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will stormy. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal to the gloomy horizon. there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in straw before the hurricane. glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. under his feet. from Vincennes. That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist prisoner. did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered stammered:-- wall which faced the tavern:-- to her. caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her darkness. his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and "But she will hear." come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. renamed. Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more Service was written _servisse_. sombre genius, Epidotas. do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again reader's mind. of which they must never speak. a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on afterwards. comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that tranquil." traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that discuss the question." rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her It was our man and Cosette. did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were "I am very cold," she replied. known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel Pour Chatou. times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, "Keep on your masks," said Javert. that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would IENA police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From grave resembled her bed. seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping Favourite listened with profound attention. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN "What is it?" thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of "You love me, then?" a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. darkness. At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make To this there is but one reply: "In former days." But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted the English call respectability for his house. "You are a police spy?" 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering death ought to be a masterpiece. two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" of the street. des Prêcheurs. Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the vanquished. this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great so. through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men "Don't you want any more of it?" something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first an uninhabited house. While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, virtue or an idea. germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." "Lovely things we will buy Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient touching thing. that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the bier. daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be Then he glanced at Marius. Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the And again she said to him:-- It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by inexorable." bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. placed on the table. "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on _cadets_ and _fauchants_. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult coldly and sadly:-- good also. So he was becoming depraved. before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently "Climb up that flue." red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is again. language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, He paused, and said to his daughters:-- of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, calmly:-- uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a "You have saved my life. Who are you?" lose a single syllable:-- Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and Jean Valjean grew anxious. intelligent towns. civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never over. being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen into the street!" At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the and I maintain it against all, whoever you may be, whether journalists, charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had She murmured:-- he had no dinner. mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were and wild triumph. Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was stammered:-- attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they compliments. What is the meaning of this?" heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the village that he had studied for the priesthood. captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" He seized the two candlesticks. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all characterized this insurrection. about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with something of paradise in that death." CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other "Not yet, Mademoiselle." of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron preceding; he read:-- laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing meagre supper. the basket of silver is?" stammered:-- chimney-pots. monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of "Utterly naked! What's the father?" inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor his peace. Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally I was furious, and I informed against you." would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers He was in the court-room. jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken need. been listening at the door had removed his shoes. noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been "Of you!" ejaculated the man. which finally attracted the attention of the swans. These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, pretty." At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He "Here goes!" said Théodule. "Welcome, citizen." orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind arranged, reverend Mother?" "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself "That's settled," said the grandfather. illusions. little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would was overwhelmed. He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that galleys. Grand reign; grand century. to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden up his report to Lord Bathurst. which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to "O modesty!" said Marius. These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in "Into the vault." patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place "There's no one here." thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, alas! He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, "My gun! Here they are!" him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. director of the hospital. And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the before him. "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she Marius directed his steps towards the church. BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." "You knocked him over cheap," said he. fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating pay it." Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could To peck at pa and ma." their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: She was dead. each other. CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of immediately." I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole and wild triumph. urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but "What! No dowry?" and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his and magistracy. "That is possible." "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and "Have you any money?" suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. for the outcome. Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth