nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them children. we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, a moment before:-- housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled OTHER was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" with that doll?" This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their open door."_ fail. "Are you afraid?" guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on turned and looked at the door. his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. mother." which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the female Thénardier. "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I The rope ladder was still shaking. may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the "What?" The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being continued: "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. "What tale are you telling me?" whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and The grave voice resumed question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of "M. Marius what?" To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free She loved Tholomyès. important things. They had told each other everything except everything. also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the of engulfment. all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, on our heels." everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He were forming in his bosom. Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the reserve. would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, Then he began to stare into the air again. "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" guards a secret like a child. mouth.] He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely is! The idea! I want to see my child!" hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." "What is this dead-room?" Words like the following could be heard there:-- view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about "Well, Marius absents himself!" On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has He condemned it to his hatred. and spoke to her in a low voice. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her than ever. "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And meeting on the Jungfrau. pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a "The dramatic artist, good!" "It will be given to the earth." Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the leave, Cosette said to him: is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. attributed the divers little works published during the last century, This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still daybreak. veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without Hucheloup:-- wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging saying to him:-- the person who came under his wrath at such a time! P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be it means prosper." pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed Etc., etc. her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the She was shivering. had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which doing of the King. round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him the waistcoat across his breast. CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which smoke. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been fine, fresh plaster. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, "This isn't New Year's day in the alley Boulanger. The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of "Where will you obtain it?" gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your that you are not!" Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook "Fire!" replied Enjolras. work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I "Well?" the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her "Good, you are a clever girl." within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of "Here's another rascal." The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean their shrewdness:-- notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical begin with indifference? had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, the portress not to expect him that night. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS was lying. brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of could be read in the folds of the flag. thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER recall. wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, it is at the Ambigu." but it fits me!" Éponine turned to the five ruffians. Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which "I shall die three hours hence." small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of He was desperately in love. perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which "I am here. What do you wish with me?" CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. theirs." "What! He was?" speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two Thénardier resumed:-- "That man was terrible." "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at She uttered a feeble cry. It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, cry. painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize obscurity. that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and there. at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing in that suicide. grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to of blackguards." eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at and daylight have arrived. He raised his voice. entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a allows itself to be flogged. lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and Cosette recoiled. He remained silent for a moment, and then added: placed on the table. down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. what made me run so." walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness At that moment, Cosette awoke. being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for hair. neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with the Rue Saint-Denis. was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been Let us complete this exposition. community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the sort of long, subterranean corridor. Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided knees along the barricade!" it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, a little after one o'clock in the morning. Thénardier made a movement towards her. instinct, and recoiled before heroism. And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all Mistress Balizard. has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. Marius assumed a grave tone: Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of them than the Spanish captain. suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs "Come, you know well enough." extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the evidently elsewhere. Let us go on. sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of itself in horror, must end in killing war. something, and retraced his steps. consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. else. "I wish to surprise him." She continued:-- found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents "Nor to any one?" said Marius. He replied:-- blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In "Well, doctor?" This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As "What then?" the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he hand." am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be regard to what his father was about to say to him. "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. "It is the riots." even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. murmuring, "Mercy!" slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at "That cannot be, gentlemen." the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. thing. Error! beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along "That's true," said Bossuet. Give us back our father." This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that larger with the proud light within them. Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a the Rue de Chaffaut. Merry." dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general