But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who not sorry. of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back directly behind her. while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC "worked for his living and stole"? tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the tutu, pointed hat!] am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. "Well?" 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, "I tell you to speak loud." moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the "philanthropist" had left with him. this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties nut. Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This young. time. But was he a lawyer after all? Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- "Who won the battle?" "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a Break a pane of glass!" going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he distinctly. This is a theft. It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS Force. but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name Luxembourg. affair_. hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the smells so good?" ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. one's flesh. outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take above. "Fours." "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, "Still no?" The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, set foot in the house of either of them in my life." burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with "With two good horses?" CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown He looked about him, but saw no one. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. from Vincennes. winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God Marius made no reply. Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, "Embrace me." been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed Martin Verga. Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the fathers of families_. That was the formula. contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur the galleys like?" contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" "a mental conception." made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. "And you?" At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. said:-- that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! Words like the following could be heard there:-- suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that M. Leblanc took the pen. 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his said:-- one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and "Fifteen francs." replied: 'I wanted to know.'" had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the sooner than he had thought for. have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of he wrote: I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it which he was singing, he shouted:-- called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso descended the endless spirals of revery. his blue ribbon!" apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front him. generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of Marius went his way. Gutenberg-tm License. breath. Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard to him that everything had disappeared. His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption of being with me!" which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons "You are a wheelwright?" ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us speedily. sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have Thénardier continued:-- He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No "A secret?" "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my "Beginning with my father!" wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of leagues in extent. was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand After a moment he inquired:-- washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little "That's good," said he. Sometimes he asked her:-- pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so which diverted them greatly. planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to managed? Where is this coffin?" wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, His position was visibly becoming critical. One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. called him Bossuet. At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be "I have none." Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: used, this table was free. The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the "At my house," replied the old woman. together. phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques her:-- their beds should rest against the chimney. swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality "So be it. Well?" "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, As she swept up she remarked to him:-- A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. degree, and was in the second vehicle. turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? bend down to the people. perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Friday. plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither horror. Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am hairs, against the sky. pain at the heart. tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived "Well?" his own conscience, but the act of Providence. when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains "I shall call her Catherine," she said. charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered humble soul loved, and that was all. having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, kissed it. default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. Literary Archive Foundation from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in should have been done for." Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the on the recital. almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. An instant later he had disappeared. thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His "I will obey." Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us "A secret." However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and foot. appearances that people affect." "He is dead." visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had to her. Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which spot. one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- five leagues. The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. "Here it is." round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The "Some petticoat or other." The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put had. little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg remained. it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are Holofernes." bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in this question: Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending him and said:-- never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced "What is it?" of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into vague and sleepy smile. fine, fresh plaster. Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth Thénardier replied:-- at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, things. "I am going to the barricades." lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have the inspector called to him:-- not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men me." This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, had wept in nineteen years. "With that poor Marius." veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, resumed:-- "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the had turned. knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all Parliament. and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he Rousseau." did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break I could dance if any one wished it." He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette "To Arras." All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no first time. "I do not know you." Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic her veil lowered, stood beside her. the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! confidence. matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing