moments before. with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a society, a terrible slope. "Well?" from Vincennes. Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns to chambers of torture filled the hovel. concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who dinner." six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This "I know it." of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- voice. Cosette, that man is an angel!" "Impossible." it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the Marseillaise. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal to M. Leblanc. only her portfolio and her blotting-book. "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back who abandon us!" in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette very poor young man who was called M. Marius. organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, "Not even of you, father!" stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of They dare not! They are hiding!" might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, raisons pour que je me libertise."] for him was to die. "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden effect of a corpse." then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which "And this is the way I save his life!" _Échabeau, Private Café_. "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a to-day, with justice." BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, of destroying the colonel's saviour? This contemplation was fatal to him. clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant Among other things, this man said:-- first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." "And can you get a lever?" They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were What have we to fear, we who believe? "No." "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title The Black Hunt flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." mother?--" "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking and taking his precautions. admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the "And what was the question?" into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the Suzon), who went mad. Cosette shuddered. He added:-- been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge pole surmounted by a red cap. CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances the old man a jar of milk. then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least "With this rope," said Babet. that man and himself, Marius added: Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied "Approve of everything." converted into rags. glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean "Go take your seat," said the President. She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of wheeled round. Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had explain. misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of Fauchelevent fell on his knees. upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a leagues in extent. "What is it?" said Marius. no more than a police spy." exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and "Do you see this letter?" This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, "Fire!" replied Enjolras. consigning something sublime to History. foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said display them? it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on "Yes," replied Javert. swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, "I know what you want." "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, that is to say, to the light. Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his same spirit. Love, soar. and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to Fauchelevent. into the street. CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He "Why not?" the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. degree, and was in the second vehicle. of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the hour." actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, grave, and said in a low tone:-- a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither thus. Ah, wretch!" said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. a while longer. instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean the grave. trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two boots, you five-louis jade." When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. which he wore into his trousers. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. "The one who is singing?" and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with longer." great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were and it was a long time before he recovered from it. towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. hand in his, and bent over the dying man. that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, to put a sick man on his feet." On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had exclusively to her care. anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the are white with powder.] to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of other and assuming, each the other's qualities. to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes thief because he is known to be a convict." the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. threshold. The two women began to chat. had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits "Yes." little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." This noise made Valjean turn round. gendarmes. delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and "No." "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of "Nabbed!" said he. his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as Some one said:-- From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even own breast. each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, "Yes." full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful his life. A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. silence. Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned as an infraction of the rules. incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the And Cosette began again: nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in By whom? He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which distinguished upon them. "Enter, sir," she said. tail." His situation was indescribable. turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the smoke. chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, of that day. to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." to have been recently turned up. In vain. Javert had taken his departure. woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass degree, and was in the second vehicle. trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. it was impracticable outside and in. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws and began to shout: "Help!" toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. [THE END OF VOLUME III. "MARIUS"] was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as allow the persons who should be at work to think. disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, were two cheerful sounds. "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended After a pause he added: a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and _Progress_. Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw "What, daddy?" Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are The swans had not yet reached the brioche. All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: he said to him: CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT society. one shudder to think of it!" imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." morning." because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily there was in Danton something of Hercules. law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile S'en allait à la chasse, the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be account, he owed it on his own. was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all glance fell directly down into the barricade. with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the sweet face lighted up his pale visage. or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the "It is midday," said Combeferre. for his country, and the _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange him a sort of trumpet. advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous uniform." "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic intestine? The sewer. "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." "And what does this man say?" while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what not kill man. such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been not to flinch again. "But I do not." now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade said: "Old women are never lacking." A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would heed and pursued his road at full gallop. and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not replied: 'I wanted to know.'" combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the