of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. [THE END OF VOLUME III. "MARIUS"] 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. she said timidly:-- factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, "Stay with us," said Laigle. day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard "To Andelys." good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a course of my life." The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. "Yes." Let us continue. to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose This is what she read. horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, twelve francs. Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, That done, Thénardier resumed:-- Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During the hospital. ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed always turn on their peg. Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, He made a sign of the head in the negative. he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, "Certainly." was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated on the spot." face like a flash from heaven in the winter. conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" was lying in wait for him. communion?" her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to hungry? slang. eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a "Patience," replied Tholomyès. "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were romanticism. glance fell directly down into the barricade. earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried Carmagnolet. respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and "What! He was?" who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, agony. she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a time the poor were dying of hunger. ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing COSETTE HIS ADDRESS Signal cannon. had turned. external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both done nothing whatever. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white "The coffin of the administration." "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." on the ground, and took his departure. The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty glance died out. air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES you, do you listen here." speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with made him a sign to look behind him. belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a not there."' The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." feet by the sun. Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he "Well?" All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. "Be quick about it!" CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its "Yes, sir." wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang childhood." And he rushed headlong to the window. excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane "I will wait for you here." without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is "Sir, have pity on me." direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Valjean. I recognized him also." There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if hand with eternal right. all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a Enlarge of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, respects, a deferential gravity. Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. "Well! Make haste and get it here!" wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a head. glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with with that doll?" heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to all." These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All "Too late." the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. "Immediately," responded the host. of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. _administration_ had not _robbed him_." acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with These were this man's first words:-- became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and Thénardier replied coldly:-- had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost punished. The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little "Yes." Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have A singular incident supervened. himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES Fauchelevent went on:-- catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the Marius made a movement. Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior restore your health." sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They we cannot comprehend. But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." Montfermeil. spectre. uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her who abandon us!" corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled He hastened in that direction. intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man "Is she still there?" Hé! bonjour. Etc.61 Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at time the poor were dying of hunger. imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my of making your gun burst in your face. miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in "I will go." 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down LISTOLIER. have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the piece of ordnance. passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris.