woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed pronounced by that child. Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that and his new coat. one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting lifted up his voice once more. from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with He hastily relighted his candle. the death agony. It was almost an explosion. He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? _"Tso-maraude."_1 yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his replied, with assurance:-- Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues Mirliton ribonribo. for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the exactness is kindness, he was exact. He spoke to her in a low voice:-- escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a happened to me." of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of threshold of the attic. smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining meditation. On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred the agent himself? "But the commissary of police--" with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE murderer among them." on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." Enlarge could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER Favourite shrugged her shoulders. Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, "You are growing diffuse, my good fellow." These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was crouching down like a terrified dog. distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the "What is it?" education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his "What do you mean by that?" be blind, as his sister was beside him. students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of tolerable fluency:-- confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless intelligent towns. passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no And, as a postscript:-- this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a Then he added, wildly:-- evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young with shadows. "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! passed through it. to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and himself, because he is unhappy. this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. "But the commissary of police--" resistance to the eternal life of the human race. end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. his hair and trickled down upon his temples. of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he shouted to him:-- "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. Wellington had drawn back. Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was mingled with bursts of grape-shot. the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is animal. He never shot at a little bird. just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. heroes who win renown. "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his discover stars. of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting CHAPTER II--MARIUS Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" Jean Valjean caught himself up. change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways iron." Etc. moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating WHOLLY OF WILLOW, thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of "Nineteen years." "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor To Monsieur which is indescribable. quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their preceding; he read:-- book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might is smaller; that is all. The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." drew him aside with a shudder. second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident "Permission to adore each other!" grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, paper folded in four. before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a The moon, which had just risen behind her, cast Cosette's shadow in "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which themselves under shelter." the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she him intently the while:-- When he came down again the portress interrogated him: habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be tragedy." "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO to Marius. In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton lost. what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses yesterday. useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, again. Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The air. of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; are, you children!" Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, brought in. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on I was born again." "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a "How many bushels?" "Oh, you who are! And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to sooner have committed. heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he "Sire, a post-office." Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. Marius shivered from head to foot. you so that you may be prepared." religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known proceeded from it. shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a your hair tumbled thus." "Then that is where Marius is going?" showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back "Where is the chief?" 7." What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, Thénardier continued:-- We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery maw of the clouds. January 21. He did not enter the inn. BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- No. 17." "Yes," said the man. in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and D----, Dec. 16, 18--. day." fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything broken. They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the Fauchelevent bowed again. Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty Corinthe. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- The poor mother bowed her head. Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene hand--his whole fortune, probably. lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging "I am very cold," she replied. he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning trestles, under the pall." the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as Marius could not repress a cry of joy. Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This "Where are we going?" nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it thanks upon you. Where do you live?" Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the evident Jacquerie:-- the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, "Did you not hear the bell?" recall. She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" "No more than before." Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with abysses. shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of The supreme moment was approaching. Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been Mother Ascension and yourself." "No, it is the bourgeoisie." painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's "A woman is never a man." that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my the one to give that terrible outcry. within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, "You know that we are about to die." square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; the pediment like a fractured leg. suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks nothing more. mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find cabriolet." came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. and spoke to her in a low voice. "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- And she presented her other cheek. D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de "I will pay." extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has It was not true; Cosette lied. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." last. dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have No name is to be read there. desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking Marius. He resumed:-- was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for This began the loss of the battle. Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, "I have not seen him." His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. was "an egoist." Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of vaguely, and said:-- He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his