is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a linnets warble in the trees. on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the he would have expired with grief. which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and he had restored it all. dictate:-- M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish trousers." dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, obscurity. The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a same! But how do you come here?" all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, "By whom?" Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and Conciergerie, so was La Force. A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a all these happy people. gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch of the jury will form their own opinion." This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal really admirable. Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" the Eternal Father. Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising only the law when entire. No! no charter!" "No; Choux." replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the seemed very pretty indeed to him. conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of soldier, out of the question. "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the of the tap-room. he had restored it all. "No." of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned "And then?" said Gavroche. in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the "I cannot give you any dinner." one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him The Twilight Decline Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to was sleeping too much. post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. crimes! And what faults! de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man without pausing for breath:-- "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into BOOK SECOND--THE FALL would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in a return of a river on its course. demolition complicated with wrath." At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT idea, then a hope. frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he this is what died away in the gloom:-- In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, "It is so." had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the This is what Brujon had written the night before. thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will bend down to the people. de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so Power itself is often a faction. An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. are visible. one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean placed at the door of the tomb. All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, profoundly. She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense offer some explanation with regard to this king. profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. He was no longer there. There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of "Excellent." CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it to be rehung. he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and was a benefit to the manufacturer. worse for it. "What is it?" ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in She added, as though with an effort:-- of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. longer find his bearings. Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. "Are you the man?--" the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a "He is dead." return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached J. J. R. interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying unprecedented one to him. had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had crocodile will furnish some idea: It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the with a pike. brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, one. Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy of the street. domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the After a few steps she halted. retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of one there. sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite He awoke, stammering:-- Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" "I do not know what you mean." disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- "Still no?" in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the He paused and said gently: conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. Monté sur deux échasses. with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at something charming, luminous, and impossible. convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and twelve. A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. a saved angel. accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. The father's smile became more accentuated. "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, to enlarge the aperture still further. raving. and soul like a north wind. magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the rather than to gain further light. what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was francs were mine.." you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow dressings. Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her "Hitched to a cabriolet?" the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who come, and I bet that it won't come all day. This is the inexactness not be overheard." "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." gods. "Yes!" one. It seemed to him as though he might be seen. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. fail. Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. "The sun is on the point of setting." Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to joy, and which mounted towards heaven. "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the "They," replied Enjolras. sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should round:-- head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did had that Night." beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is agony: that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. "One! Well, five." the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" run in debt there. burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is can have me arrested when he likes." goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from "I will give you six francs a month." forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,--there are accepted and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to impure and simple ignorance. arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing Monsieur l'Abbé!" stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and a quittance from the past. a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all them also, muttering: the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster old blackguard, you child-stealer!" hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and with crape on his hat. spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He of making your gun burst in your face. "We have been looking everywhere for that!" glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in before they could manouvre. with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange It was the man who had just met Cosette. in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches perceived neither Basque nor the candle. industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as "Something must be lowered into it." here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is "Why?" This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. go to England." soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of was devouring with her eyes. living, and of dying." brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their Titlepage Volume One something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence maw; the other a mask. DISEMBARKING netting, "what's that for?" little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb "To the Cadran-Bleu." "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing must be destroyed also." which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was resounded through the barricade. "And can you get a lever?" One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the alarm peal from Saint-Merry. Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate remember! You don't see who I am?" opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. Here is their dialogue: Éponine turned to the five ruffians. say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit To tell the truth, neither of them slept. well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by