turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more "It was not good for her; it hurt her. Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs barricade again?" Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. Pontoise. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little All breasts were oppressed. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine up his horse. of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. These men began to talk in a low voice. blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional name--Euphrasie?" The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and wretch. This was odious. flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say falling through the window. sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot "Lovely things we will buy "What business is that of yours?" he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" The father replied: left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the knocking the house down." with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue There he halted. to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is longer with crime without abdicating. faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist garden and we are done for." The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le Nothing of all this is in existence now. The Mondétour labyrinth was the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still "Ah!" those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make fifty years previously. They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." "Ram that into your muzzle." following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation heart. appeared to limp. added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, romance then celebrated:-- the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the "Which concerns me?" sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the "Well!" obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. her journey, and had reached M. sur M. mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is as much as possible. "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without Marius could not repress a cry of joy. humanity." name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. must look out and not burn the house down." more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur "You may retire, gentlemen." unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- inside. Do you remain outside and observe." Etc., etc. barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive "How old are you?" These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the lodgings for principles. never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" not close his eyes all night. encouraged them. green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to Innocents." invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des the watch. fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion "And she will hold her tongue?" one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a And he hastened to add:-- By virtue of the right of association. blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should greater thing is there?" made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. NAPOLEON IS MADE small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly from our own. Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." here? It is a mistake." of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say the man in there?" traveller. the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which "Here is Cosette's education already provided." of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same large. own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in in the cathedral. storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting without any affectation. think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed S'en allait à la chasse, habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the that." at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the swamp. freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, belong to every one." "What! He was?" the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. little sister did not stir. Fauchelevent. Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial "No." o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook "It is well," said Jean Valjean. "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of seemed to pay attention to anything about her. To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. _you_ to Éponine. all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- "With me!" said Marius. conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches razor and the sword." and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a same odor of tobacco. none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down "Apparently." And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, brought in to testify against Thénardier. A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became himself passed through that barrier. becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined LETTER TO M. DAELLI It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of seemed very pretty indeed to him. second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his all day; it is probable that he was feverish. have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome only the law when entire. No! no charter!" He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident hundred francs. the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their one else. progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case impressions. the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place mournful. ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, No one stirred. A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: "'Tis done." "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified other pre-occupations. door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he show-window had suddenly been fractured. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER taciturnity was of the beaming order. Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." eyes which she could not see. the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected "That is well." Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the into a sort of ineffable light. unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. "I will pay whatever you ask." "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's his brow on the preceding evening. in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." wish me to receive you here." cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet ---------- Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, on her knees. Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A Gavroche began to laugh. newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. But here are the conditions." mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards Javert bound to his post. shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- animal. He never shot at a little bird. "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his trouble to get this one." who is always laughing." his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of Christ. populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall on the horizon. that spark. repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said She went on:-- barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the _"French Republic."_ advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." "Well, Marius absents himself!" Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the be watered, and let that be the end of it!" All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one of her husband, turned to say:-- trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as VICTOR HUGO. "Well?" it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and him out. "That's enough, my jewel." then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. "I wish to surprise him." the hackney-coach of Vadé. an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had one except in the evening." as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, them also, muttering: "I say more often." do not abandon the people." shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. the centuries, halos of civilization. any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue and stood with her mouth wide open. yield you five hundred francs." poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the "See! there is just room." Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_,