careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This "Some one will be by." the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. "Well, I don't mean that you shall." I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook a moment before:-- "And when the vault is open?" does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- "I am not forgetting you." all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does Cosette, that man is an angel!" He tapped a third time. observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl "Here I am, reverend Mother." This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what _the means of dying?_" interdicted. questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of Fauchelevent's turn had come. and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. One knows not what one sees. sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing Fauchelevent bowed again. not slept either. attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with cudgel, the thin one. And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS Ubayette. being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly rest. Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable greater thing is there?" "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the to you, was present." children drew close to Gavroche. human wall! more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly "The old man added:-- years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as had risen; it had begun to rain. However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the "You will remain with us a week at least?" sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. "It appears that there is a row." 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The Jean Valjean continued to smile. turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." "What jade is this?" meet again presently? Take your letter." A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian insolence of others. confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of summer. The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven ought not to see Cosette any more?" CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty Faoucq. NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a "Where is he?" "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. Night had fully come. abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to The incomplete times in which we live. law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's five leagues. She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. thunder:-- keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure _Rousseau the Aquatic_. also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and brandishing his pistol and singing:-- He opened the envelope. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ Frontispiece Volume Two in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most He inquired:-- mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. against it. obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision. At principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that We have never understood this sort of objections. rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these celebration of love takes place. awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all have done well." gendarmes. At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the will cover the coffin with the pall." appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National children drew close to Gavroche. stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that On the day following that on which these events took place in the house which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for There was no reply. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had visible. Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in The father was saying to his son: succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop that that was what he ought to do. He could not. paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. "For whom is this letter?" me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a "Domino." Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, there. singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, She paused. making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the the Minister of War and the general in command of the department there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the the thoughtful man. His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. Trappe replies to Horace. in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this rubbish swept up, corpses removed. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution "So be it. Well?" certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly roughened with brandy and liquor. the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon them on the table in the guise of candles?" had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. which was very new to him. recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, the heart of man. like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly quarter. cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest said to her, "Follow me!" placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." civilization." question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but Javert went on:-- inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had and he said to himself: "It is he." All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; to scratch one's self." Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained thought no more about it. evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit displace the bar and slip into the garden. to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." "What's your name, portress?" change; in the other lay six napoleons. hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became Whither? Enjolras: "What fine marble!" it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black gay; one is tender:-- And after a pause he added:-- BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My "On what day, then?" the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to He went on:-- minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his Enlarge "At my house," replied the old woman. be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen He demanded in a weak voice:-- appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite her:-- Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue "You?" delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. shelter." said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly "Yes," said the man. wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that occur. This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the rusty hinge had not awakened any one. In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, dismiss the fiacre." _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his "Yes," replied Javert. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt Cosette's silence. The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- For Cosette laughed now. All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which was. church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human made him see light. "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his hand. He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- them without sinking into the earth." with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed his steps. Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the "Let us sell our lives dearly." Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer this youth. was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, mouth."] "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars more." frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. in her corner:-- their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them from the sun than ours. Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades the gate, and found nothing. replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" a curve on the ground.] fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled Marius kept the pistol in his hand. horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the farce." envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. terrible purple. street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They encouraged them. prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was days." present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former "Why not?" Enjolras:--