impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" her well. wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted On the day following that on which these events took place in the house uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of the contrary of revolt. Every revolution, being a normal outcome, away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails thither. peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he not to flinch again. "Can I see her?" Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he is smaller; that is all. he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the The father rose. blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there man, in the barricade. one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were "That is just." Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is in it. "Yes." the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go "Granted," said Javert. fall from his pocket. "It bores me." repeated:-- Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical of letters. sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise And he added: his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. question in the book, and she would answer it. Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke floor, where it stopped. "What, reverend Mother?" He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius LISTOLIER. _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du shivered. Here a short digression becomes necessary. hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the belly before that man!" number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the seen. were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the establishment. the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, a look which disturbed Cosette. second soul, the right. child. Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape on these wounds. "No." At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, him to laughing. the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of "It embarrasses me," said she. to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and "You can do something," said she. amicable. idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner He turned, and beheld Javert. Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, "Why?" found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister "No, sir." gaze. "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." poltroon!" households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and "And you are to be turned out of this one." The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse "What's your name, portress?" You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the which he was singing, he shouted:-- rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that useful." Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A "His name is Jean Valjean." And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a "There won't be much left for dinner." and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from knows who has been there or will be there." silently made ready their guns. performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The right, and entered the forest with long strides. intelligent towns. the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant asked Charlotte.] Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to for you!" proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that "Yes." burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and as yet made a serious beginning. already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare to Gavroche. frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon "You are sure?" the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, with her smile. "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he "Gardener." self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the own breast. bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day trousers! What energy!" He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. foreseeing that he should not dine. infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his alley where Marius was. Marius closed his book, then opened it again, Only grant me one favor." Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying "Is the team harnessed?" are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. had turned. They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. rise at Austerlitz. from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his id="linknoteref-63">63 rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the him; the perspiration was pouring from him. the woods. Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to going on. invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day And Jean Valjean added:-- M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But And he turned to Jean Valjean: "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there "Yes." Night had fully come. shoulder of the good man and said not a word. A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most "Yes." Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS forty-five francs. deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now A flash pierced her glassy eye. She resumed, and her accent expressed She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du his brow on the preceding evening. to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: there. "What act?" necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. la Perle. frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is death. If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat "It is true," said Chenildieu. To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back up and replied: "Javert." And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low "Why are they fighting?" him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this "Ah!" said the grandfather. Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like He laid four louis on the table. perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden Quand irons nous dans la forêt? More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with a National Guard was visible through a rent. Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." saying and hearing! from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his Marius resumed:-- "Make haste to bring Cosette." joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following "I did not understand what you said." adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to "Two or three times." pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of There were only four uniforms. slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy "Is this your little girl?" to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself Valjean. Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers. At that moment, nine o'clock struck. adire Corinthum_." otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we on high. so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. The stupefied mother did not stir. which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick fate has hitched him. with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the from the populace, passed with great noise. Jean Valjean had been recaptured. There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace subject to adventures, and, for instance, become _national property_; he prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, herself that she must know what it contained. "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE to me that Paris is waking up." boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting "Three." Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she traverse. low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling "I'm filling my basket, citizen." will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack there were no longer any lanterns. to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. neighborhood. one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a Gavroche. visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general answer from Jondrette. friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, convict." the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy there was in Danton something of Hercules. while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." "So there is a fair going on here?" by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique passed through it. indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE "There is enough food there for twenty." The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. me about mamma." The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: Ah, good gracious!" case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his "What is it, father?" opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. it:-- of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and "I weep for all," said the Bishop. "Who is there?" vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at high as the houses. that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her