The mad rattle of the cart, filled to overflowing the possible measure calme_]." mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs "This is my place, sir." taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. pay for the drinks." on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep consent. We will drink. After work, never before." alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. CHAPTER II--MADELEINE is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw expenses of his burial. reached the Richefeu smoking-room. "Yes, sir." define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than his blue ribbon!" The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop's arm. the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first illusions. greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. hundred crowns. They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; a hole there with his eyes. later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at cellar." On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, have done well." the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your "Monseigneur--" said he. mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, l'Égyptienne. "I will learn English and German." hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his "An idler." wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, "You are right; read!" this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" peasant's head. is Gribier." He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very ghouls." "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing "That is too much! A government key!" who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in "Be easy." had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with What Marius now beheld was a hovel. remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the "A watch." BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put "It is settled, reverend Mother." darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked "I was sent away from the other inn." "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both Enlarge in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace three times rapidly without uttering a word. anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think nor in the shadow of an army. throw one's self in the water. Valjean's sign. full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what hand had relaxed and had let him go free. On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty Providence intervened. to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." women. When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by your hair tumbled thus." tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- to ask you something." for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he And the long-haired one began again:-- her again in detail. Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the "You will hand that bill to the man." was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had embarrassed his still timid mind. and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I night. The member of the Convention resumed:-- having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and Marius kept the pistol in his hand. Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore "Fifty." Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by it!" Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease. It's like granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. church." was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been stones was continued with gun-shots. love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. On the following day he did not come. What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them There is a purple from below. evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; entered the Rue Saint-Louis. were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE "Father--" the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had "Because not one will go away." pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, totally dark. undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with "He is dead." sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed "Where do you come from?" ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could their doll! released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night "Yes." Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. Gavroche began to laugh. "Behold the great martyr." On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who "I will breathe." he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, there. of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend "Do." without. If he has no doctor he will die." emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. hands of Providence. was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are the ideal. of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the From whom? From misery. "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, "He has the air of a man who is following some one." This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that father? Why should he! "How many?" the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there he could read it. She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- middle of the room, and said:-- instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further "He is following on my heels," said she. "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns no doubt. She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed who have not a sou." at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called capable of exclamation:-- "Where are you going, then?" rat_ in his hand. 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is sheer fatigue. stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have "The rats." that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the "Twenty francs," said the old woman. not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he Et qu'il me fallait quitter And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and succession!" she exclaimed. of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de "Who will prove that to me?" "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and come and presented itself to him of its own accord. certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with "Do you designate who is to remain." he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two Neuilly-sur-Marne. Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it violent. with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following divinely fatal phenomenon. "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered daylight habitually illumined his soul. looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron "You are a student?" demanded Marius. train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, longer daring to breathe. possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself should be omitted. "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, "Oh, I get in." own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or Jean Valjean suspected nothing. taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, his heart:-- business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle "Yes." bite, he exclaimed:-- who are old women now. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of Enlarge had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and