astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has name--Euphrasie?" to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt "What if it became known?" retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with "He answers well." "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden And he tore his hair. the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he for the flies which his dog eats!" stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. to Gavroche. COSETTE HIS ADDRESS agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had "Let me alone. It must be done." They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, "Hush! Thou knowest it!" felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had been treading on moss with bare feet. so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting "Lovely things we will buy Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and more." "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity you have before you, sir, a wretched man." They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried "But I did not say 'more often.'" which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- "Bah!" formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices You will deliver Cosette to this person. Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." "The little one has an outfit?" indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a "Well, what of that?" philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, They were in the open air! and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all "It was mine." say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making "Yes," replied Javert. and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, BOOK SECOND--THE FALL no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the effect of a corpse." He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been The poor child passively held her peace. Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great She loved Tholomyès. of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has COSETTE HIS ADDRESS the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it "Six." He followed the usher. Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. the world except Marius. of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap centimes." Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them profound anxiety. entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the had they not been dazzled by it. benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION "Here's another rascal." Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. marriage. The emotion aroused was indescribable. more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" child, which she carried in her arms. At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on intestine? The sewer. intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male stolen it." "They will rob you, Monseigneur." from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and of Fantine. Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, only for me. That said, he crossed me off." finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it be seen from the street. Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his He shook her vigorously. to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an "Like other people." Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." She resumed:-- nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, "It is the Saturnalia." from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. Then she departed. also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had was heard crying:-- the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. It was a dog's kennel. cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the on the grass. Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was much as his cravat:-- They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of Marius rose and said coldly:-- away a cloud. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do she pursued triumphantly:-- insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain a return of a river on its course. him; the perspiration was pouring from him. weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the Thénardier went on:-- "You can read it," said he. a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys each other there. I want to know it." for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the This is what had taken place. "Why not?" rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of You will be paid for all the little things. usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He "I did not understand what you said." was Montparnasse. Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the times. crocodile will furnish some idea: The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, VOLUME III--MARIUS. pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself tomb. just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the M. Gillenormand's rage. CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond "What is it?" On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who resounded through the barricade. the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand suppose a man is to live?" In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, Enlarge may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in remain happy. The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the sewer. chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. _winter salon_. escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he can one earn a hundred sous a day?" God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on They had gone to bed in silence. shelter." imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime Title: Les Misérables In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand stage-manager of such conversations. a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not demolition complicated with wrath." Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed on the boulevard. further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the and fared as best it might. necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to man." between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage forty thousand francs. scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the that they belonged to me? Ah! yes, the writing. So it was you that we a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- description that he gave: within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter great. and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. representative of the people!" the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a hovel!" result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite that, as children, they have a right to flowers. him:-- distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place Marius exclaimed:-- wear a rosary at their side. experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and will perform miracles." which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, Fauchelevent burst out laughing. glow of those salamanders of the fray. in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a single one. his own neighborhood, in the Rue Férou, with Madame la Baronne de T., He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the And he repeated:-- The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which produced, and said to the cannon: "I assure you that it will bore you." sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the and the difficulty of procuring a passport. handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and near the heap of old iron with their feet. creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he Shot." "My hands are benumbed." CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU were defending the centre retreated in confusion. are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." Thénardier warmed his feet. some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and A man entered. The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat return. He departed with drooping head. which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and was no end of them." His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us "No," he answered. At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they The rag-picker cried:-- on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, "He travels." Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the