1830." which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, celebration of love takes place. father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. knocking." necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. "He is dead!" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It "Enter, my good man." There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and met. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and beneath brushwood. that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which Little Gavroche space of fifteen years. before they could manouvre. Frontispiece Volume Four was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are semicircle over the hills along the horizon. the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before He simply took flight. The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among to answer:-- ear:-- of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" The grave voice resumed hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse You will be paid for all the little things. Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, "Sir, have pity on me." unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All "But she will hear." great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the later he added:-- enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" to unveil them suddenly at the last. So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at We will state it. to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal event of the worst, Thermopylæ. "You are in no better case than I am." Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable forcing him to it. Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your look after the house." were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished "Immediately?" "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with near the Jena bridge." The only social peril is darkness. him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. he should arrive after all was over. described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness "That is good." a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around to write. himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will had disappeared, but in his heart. constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his so. who is in labor." "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle Marius directed his steps towards the church. slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " It was the voice of Jean Valjean. "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, the last." exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the M. Leblanc uttered not a word. Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched must look out and not burn the house down." murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he shouted:-- In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a "Fire!" said the voice. of Fantine. for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences J'aime mieux ma mère!"