what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in "I am not forgetting you." One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular "Here is the pay for two days in advance." "You have knocked at all doors?" do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they on the spot." unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region oozing walls,--what declaimers! Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the otherwise than literally. Marius arranged matters so as to be absent at is soaked. future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes hair. "So you are sure that he will come?" placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might "Pardi." it by hope. He said:-- sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. reserve. belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch "Keksekça?" happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for him have only a wooden spike." passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. "Which concerns me?" whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. "Reverend Mother?" Marius continued: was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being "And what does this man say?" with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he on a run. The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died her payments. Some months she was in arrears. As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, as to write." village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of A third shovelful of earth fell. rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of "Certainly not." desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of "Have you trinkets?" were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and something of heaven through holiness. injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface derivative of the night. Gonesse; the universe ends there. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day What does this signify? little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, "Don't you see the grape-shot?" the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read He recoiled and stammered:-- tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the "His son?" said the porter stupidly. in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, eating-house-keeper very far. CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround in this manner. The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a beneath brushwood. what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from turned squarely round. in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The one. traveller. from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. assailed, scaled, and never captured. do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, The first hour passed in this manner. and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which existence." In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, them back." Amor me llama, And Love is my name; "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty they are." causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and should say that it pleased him. He had always felt the absolute rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of dressed in red is disagreeable. are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter "Well, doctor?" arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to is not a caste. They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point hungry." CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and "Why?" Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will "Instanter," said Gavroche. Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have is! The idea! I want to see my child!" down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient _"Amen." _ "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." "Yes!" stammered Marius. Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. "State the case precisely." for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest "Yes? '93!" two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND Nothing shall stop me." no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and Jean Valjean remained motionless. well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. battalions of his brigade." "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. strained his ears. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial "Like yourself, reverend Mother." CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, Suzon), who went mad. the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran hands seeking their guns became audible. "Do you see this letter?" "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the "My feet are cold!" said he. a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. odious. impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The three times rapidly without uttering a word. with an air of reproach. He knelt beside Cosette's bed. on these wounds. her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there encumbered with wounded. came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in hole. But you are free." give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where "I am the convent grave-digger." about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." ira: _-- rubbish swept up, corpses removed. The poor mother bowed her head. shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned interrogated. elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the Je dirais au grand César: "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was "The man replied:-- is there. Social phthisis is called misery. CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established "Get into bed," replied the man. The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," me the way." these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on glance fell directly down into the barricade. with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you "Yes." charming hour with which grand passions begin. victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, on. individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength "What is the name of yonder man?" he has." "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his "Sign. What is your name?" about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. And she had replied: "This." "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first called _Madame la Colonelle_. white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost serene. Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which "440." years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny short as it was. worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was The father's smile became more accentuated. staring at him. "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. "That's true," said Bossuet. whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something The grave-digger paused. CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push Bougon. between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are admired him. wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus "Well?" "Why?" said Marius. which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same Republicans are like." than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. beginning. fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two "A living person." things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries in the banlieue. CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where jugular vein. nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "To be free," said Combeferre. There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to shall set out in an hour." "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." delight. It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. The kicks continued. rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you grotto." He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto." appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these And she left the room. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you another world:-- blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du pillars of the market. handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged to be looking on. who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. room and said: for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is "Yes." that they forgot that it was fine. he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say Babet took Thénardier aside. This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, Gillenormand, the elder_. "That is the concern of the good God." "What do you mean to say?" of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer