Pratiquez la vertu, nowadays!" have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a eyes were still closed. Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by good object; to massacre them is a bad means. Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, whose place Fauchelevent had taken. A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get Adoration. returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes approached her hastily. to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, "I know it." consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father She seized the coin. himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and He paused. I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and and Madame Pabourgeot, At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes "Dost thou know?--" get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, ninety-seven men, and the lancers of the guard of eight hundred and one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had position! produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call which he had beneath his great coat. saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. "Don't harm him!" Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly francs." "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger "As if he were the only father." violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls been listening at the door had removed his shoes. As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" resolution. in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by Enjolras cried: understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were "How old is she?" The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as which he was singing, he shouted:-- Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans resumed:-- and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that "Reverend Mother?" It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would "Yes, there is!" gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, succession, and shaking them cautiously. finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" He cried to Cosette:-- HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of sublimity of prayer. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; appearance once more in the opening. harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows MARINGO her. The good woman appeared as usual. Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. The Thénardier resumed:-- to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, This word struck Marius. The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had itself which creates them. to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the water froth and humanity boil. Hence arise troubles; but after these appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour Etc., etc. heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is "You say nothing, Brujon?" could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That "God!" contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. Jean Valjean gently. nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, life. to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those cook-shop was in a bad way. tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture bows, and demanded in a curt tone: mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And "Fire!" said the voice. race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, the birds are exhausted. their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed in the grass; The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of to draw a long breath. He went on: "I don't know anything about it." "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits lost. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. lodgings for principles. "That is understood." slangs and to speak none of them. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable and exclaimed:-- will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut see!" to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was Sometimes he asked her:-- it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. Pontmercy and yourself." life of this poor old man?" yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed occasion of his entering that coach, and that he had already, on the Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... "I don't know." "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. them than the Spanish captain. pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. "Oh! That's not all." table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what you." that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this tranquil." have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their And who, with gentle hands, do clear could not doubt. where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: "I tell you that he's the father." his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean third, he cried, "Famous!" proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly writhed. stood near him:-- the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun "That is good." seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in "We are going to fling the government to the earth." all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness "No, sir." me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I Lamarque. a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of heavy. The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the mingle:-- There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in adventure. Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell A bécoter papa, maman." struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's consented at last to take supper. were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA key. murderer applies its rouge. and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring Marat. from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his glance fell directly down into the barricade. While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, billows of the invisible; he shouts. Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." charming, happy face. The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and "Yes, sir." by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all Then he turned to Cosette. Enlarge they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. receipt of the work. Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might be watered, and let that be the end of it!" abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. Jondrette. be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just Jean Valjean caught himself up. fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to "Here you are!" is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, cattle at night in the pastures. seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my for the flies which his dog eats!" was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us "You know that a mother died this morning?" tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were does not know the name of one's malady? would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think "What do you mean?" reply. The two girls departed. war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his said to the spy:-- Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of "Take aim!" feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the could hear the octogenarian breathe. in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it some diversion shall arise. belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not Jean Valjean took these little trips. attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian