go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, "Give it to me quick." greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" "Well?" who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." your very humble there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, Thus, idleness is the mother. windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact I cannot drink." His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of sort of merry bombardment over their heads. in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. CHAPTER III--THE LARK handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased body, her prayers and her toilet. _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. "The Petit-Picpus convent." reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, pocketed it. inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the He strode off in the direction of the markets. Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the that is to say, to the light. A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light Dépêche. (Make haste.) blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough this morning." state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are brazier. of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. read my letter? What did he say to you?" groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the cudgel, which was lying on the ground. the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, Gavroche replied:-- did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! "What with?" At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find something of paradise in that death." "What for?" a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered to have been recently turned up. In vain. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself youth! 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking say timidly:-- it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a talent, and they were superb. "To penal servitude?" "Give it to me all the same." aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. He broke the seal and read:-- young girl had received her quarterly income. All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. light of earth. Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught done Jean Valjean a favor. mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed journey is long and costly. I need a little money." that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought fronts of old farm-houses. This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black "That very one," said the husband. furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be black night. one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the The rag-picker cried:-- themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, "I will learn English and German." Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. "I cannot." Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on understands the actions of Providence. have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, CHAPTER II--MARIUS for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install "Don't you see the grape-shot?" he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, the cafés. was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. Bougon. "Well?" of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who "What was it?" He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known "Yes." Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS There was a tumult, then silence. he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least setting; their appetites were satisfied. bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "We'll warm you up." was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the "As you like, father," said Cosette. of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left forest. fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are were still thirty-seven of them. "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which Faoucq. himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy death ought to be a masterpiece. Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the across the wall and disappeared. From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of "Utterly naked! What's the father?" inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see window. "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six death ought to be a masterpiece. Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted good." contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an his blue ribbon!" hedge. "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your "Excuse me, sir--" The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at "Six feet." having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- remember. Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. "Answer me as though I knew nothing." her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, very far beyond their own love. two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, M. Leblanc erased the three words. thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they And this other poem:-- CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the element enters. broken. I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings in his mind. impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those "No, sir; it is Christmas." grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do contemplating the slumber of the just. G---- resumed. one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last The grave-digger dropped his shovel. revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and Cosette had emerged from under the table. frightful gulfs! of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from we were told. The orchard is terrible. small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he To this there is but one reply: "In former days." CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; interesting." Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy which he stood. and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same Let us continue. on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of society. "Approve of everything." between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious blind. sine expressa superioris licentia_. not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK tomb. area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the embarrassment in every way." that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable assassin?" who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street live?" to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was see!" trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no conduct this creature to jail." out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, and fell to thinking about his father. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the young. "Let us knock!" it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took A terrible situation! to be touched. come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict Go there. It is not hard to meet him." DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises Nothing had happened. he had no dinner. CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness. His judgment, which it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere barricade: "My gun!" "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called Marius retorted: "And myself also." romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large place of the Cathedral of Rheims. sparrow; the child is called the gamin. than hovels. Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to to trembling. sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a star. One would have called it a luminous wound. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this "Hitched to a cabriolet?" The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No his other talents, which was an old dodge. He had trusty fellows,