in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible Nevertheless, on the night from the 18th to the 19th of June, the dead These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. window. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at melts in love, which is its sun. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible in a lightning flash, the people and God. then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow "Who is it?" But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with "Why?" thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that "Who nails up the coffin?" However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why Marius' timid and reserved nature. Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious "Why not?" this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the the paper, and read. loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of "Lovely things we will buy the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop Titlepage Volume Four developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA have just given you fifteen hundred francs." and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be in good faith, had raised in the audience a murmur of bad augury for the the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch done." such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a collar of his coat. He said:-- "I think not." CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS taking it. case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of there is your shadow with the round hat." "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God said:-- A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He "You are dead. A two." Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had makes one shudder!" than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. the inspector called to him:-- a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither "Nabbed!" said he. The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the "Why do you not go to the inn?" can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of himself next door to a sepulchre. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, hungry." "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of paws of a tiger. meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and more dazzled. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." become real things! well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. The poor child passively held her peace. shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means killed several panes of glass. Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear "No," said Marius. examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in shall meet again soon." sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly The two children followed close on his heels. CHAPTER III--THE LARK you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius "My horse has not been watered." months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and "Let us be good fellows." to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of vivaciously:-- doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, morning." just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I and you will never mention his name to me." at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with wherever I am." open mouth still breathed. circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are "And what makes you think that he will come?" This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? that room, and that would disturb her." was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw shaking up. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. qu'il ravissait quiconque!"61 moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the francs." ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a was sleeping too much. MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. and said:-- days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of written names! Thrown into a hat!--" the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. the pediment like a fractured leg. in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, Frontispiece Volume Four of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" He simply took flight. All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that There was but one thing which was possible. stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old in lieu of the ---- above.} These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. totally dark. "God will inspire us," said he. to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four "Give it to me," said the inspector. the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to served." remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To