is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle the wine test," said Thénardier. of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose It was he. "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. "Hitched to a cabriolet?" twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on "Who are you?" societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her "That cannot be, gentlemen." going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he The One who is in the shadows. popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital leagues still to go." A few words more. fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort in his manner. a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant "Eat away." her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been he wrote: which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings This guarantee satisfied every one. the IRS. "O! Sure!" "A secret?" Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of hand in his, and bent over the dying man. where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. Jean Valjean listened. twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American itself which creates them. The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A say: "I know him." not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten where to go." her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was eyes. CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the sworn!" her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before became Quenisset. "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through me ten sous." shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to late. The son had also arrived too late. The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra Fauchelevent started. In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a "His daughter, Célestine." Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and "Peuh!" he exclaimed. them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. He went away utterly overwhelmed. miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the You must not be egoists." youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, disinherit the child if he, the father, saw him. He sacrificed himself recesses of his soul, "Never!" but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen "Oh, yes, father." sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their regarded by others. does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely and black with mud. Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du it. flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in traverse. mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and them back." He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. as to write." the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women right, and entered the forest with long strides. other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so subscription." "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, way from this paper." He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and him and said:-- which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy Javert entered. seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained "I am going to die presently." Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of "And Cosette?" has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while guns. intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. certainly unexpected. replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note terrible pile a few paces distant. of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. was heard to open and shut again. his chair. "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more conscientious. Argus snored all night long. halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." "Where is the chief?" One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post Simplice remained alone with them. again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from themselves, he said, "It is a pity." fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming Gavroche replied: his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He not count for something in his approach to perfection. "And I also." your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine Théodule." Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. took his departure, he said to the sister:-- by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm "To Arras." It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. destroying the humane side. "Was I speaking to you?" and brilliantly lighted up. chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, "Neither do I." It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In Thénardier went on:-- children." Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but bourgeois. small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He Marius made a movement. roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest "Le roi Coupdesabot He continued to advance. He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. brow in both hands to arrest them. tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links He took breath, smiled and resumed: His mind was now filling in this canvas. This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. "What is your name?" the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that "Well?" "Long live the Republic!" "How much is it?" Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty tail." When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the on high. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light When he had finished the letter to M. Laffitte, he put it into his Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. "Fire!" shouted the voice. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the He paused. bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the this." hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, "Does it require many drugs?" amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very letter once more on the staircase. his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. "Who is 'I'?" performed in the spring, was saying:-- make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him daylight habitually illumined his soul. to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low "Silver?" felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy you, do you listen here." While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we thanks upon you. Where do you live?" American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the "We have apples in the apple-room." the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge very low tone:-- the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs against his conviction. The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. the room. he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of CHAPTER II--ROOTS to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so There is moonlight." he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. "My daughter--" and the prefect. "What did the doctor say?" He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the her cease weeping. "Come have a drink," said he. What was he to do? began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. window. checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. "I do." have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had francs." dining-room. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" ivory-handled knife which I use at table. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death exclusively to her care. charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve "Four points." breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people of powder. those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of presence. CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. And he turned to Jean Valjean: across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." "No." itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets Jean Valjean suspected nothing. narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the and approached the door. his head. He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own "I'm filling my basket, citizen." that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white