encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the id="linknoteref-63">63 The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the "Oh! how glad you are!" who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very both eyes proudly. down. Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been work; a construction which is immense and ignored. places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror "I thought he was buckled." so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" over:-- a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to "Like other people." All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has J. J. R. might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single "I will give it," said the mother. Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and malice or stupidity. "What is it?" disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs man like that, who had the air of a girl!" fall from his pocket. The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to waiting for you." Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters violent. But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? He was lost in conjectures. As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on is it?" puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one and began to listen with rapture. of destroying the colonel's saviour? right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. something of paradise in that death." One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by authority buttoned to the chin. For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than had Javert's pistols with him. She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. ruffian eighteen years of age. the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty "Would you like to have me go with you?" In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with "It is not that." so long as he has money?" Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. other something moving through the smoke. this epoch. bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." "Approve of everything." have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS She went on:-- "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he take the barricade. he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half consent. We will drink. After work, never before." And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of It was She! virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His the bottom of an abyss. In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. a lucky girl!" had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they lie!" "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to punning allusion.] have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. guards and one battalion from Brunswick. drop of sweat on his loins. antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I Nevertheless, on the night from the 18th to the 19th of June, the dead see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely be called drops of soul. obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg were closed. thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the M. Leblanc made his appearance. be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. blood. involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The Culture-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men "Cosette!" were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had alas! to go out. of the Constituent Assembly. upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical "Very well, speak." gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the replied, with assurance:-- the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock "Cosette!" "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has remained deserted. squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy By Victor Hugo 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other the few following lines: She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of "Well!" CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR was nothing to her. "No, sir." sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But other. certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing that he was doing as he always did. CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE society, a terrible slope. little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy A kiss, and that was all. upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they away a cloud. society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning Take it. He says that here is haste." muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for Javert's mind. faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute with Cosette's handwriting. A year passed; then another. Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the "It's I," said he. doubt this. If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four One looked at it and spoke low. enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of "God will inspire us," said he. There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to occur. before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what ---------- CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his "Yes, sir." beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. Marius could not repress a cry of joy. nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath and leaning on the table. "Well, what of that?" This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; the name of Azelma. rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. wrath. right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" in the future." He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the "Is this your little girl?" a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his tiger, and fled. The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that M. Leblanc made his appearance. It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: cartridges publicly to passers-by. the absence of the wolf. little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the "Look out!" listen. A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris stroke. The same silence. The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute not so. "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this waiting for you." grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." Valjean lost consciousness. will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has Excellence of Misfortune every comer.] winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. a gentle voice:-- with the city council." winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept "Father! What are those men in those carts?" of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. Then he exclaimed:-- "How much will you give me for it?" said she. silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there She was shivering. paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say silence. it means prosper." inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between man's self-sufficiency. relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the "I'm going to put these infants to bed." and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is Suddenly this darkness became terrible. herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the 56 (return) [ recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when "Welcome, citizen." body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal."