white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his "That cannot be, gentlemen." desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human this woman Fantine." Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" noise, which was sweet yet sad. from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it _Progress_. adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep He was absorbed, in fact. As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort affair, entrusted with this same function. in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right knocking." from the books and manuscripts on his table. avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of "Yes." and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six ruffian eighteen years of age. floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." Bombarda's windows. you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. heard in all quarters of the town:-- against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. lighted?" 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. in the grass; themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; "Monsieur Thénard." M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, He said, "No, Madame." account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his Gavroche. them and him. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected within the year. "I don't want your money," said she. dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. "A woman is never a man." "And what does this man say?" Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to sadness had been possible to her. terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great The eldest girl grumbled:-- Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, And off he went. pavement. most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the Marius returned to No. 50-52 with great strides. The door was still open have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" shoulders. with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the I knew." appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." loudly:-- the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, harness over. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane "Well, am I anybody?" the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the he. quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten "Expectations?" busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same stones. There is not a minute to be lost." sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first And he fumbled in his pocket. worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his drop of water!" nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that daybreak. so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed out and made this barricade. Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in intestine? The sewer. One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. downwards. "I adore you!" But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was "Rest easy." enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. which contains an idea of torture and abasement. that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." Javert had reached one of those extremities. "M. Madeleine!" To whom? a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These "Nothing." towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He question. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself again. dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. Etc., etc. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated Cossette Sweeping Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the yard than in close confinement. After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind God. The good God says: The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the "Then why did you come?" I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I would find perhaps a little pity. count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" "Why do you not go to the inn?" impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said heart. "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to There was no reply. "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was listen. sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at "What's the matter with you, brats?" He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; "So there is a fair going on here?" night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; had brought it into port at Toulon. to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected Pour Meudon. gravity:-- season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange He halted, and said gently:-- He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with Monsieur. tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some "What is your request?" said the King. of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. service. the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one woman. means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also "Friends! Listen well. This is not what you want. Now I'm talking. In gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One meagre income which had survived no one knew how. He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" that they give you suck." cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to "What then?" It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have lines:-- Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in Let us continue. He confined himself to replying: thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our It was inauspicious. practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles "The grave-digger." would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made days." American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, The man opened his eyes in astonishment. CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, She read:-- "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." A momentary pause ensued. That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. pillars of the market. Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible The investigation had begun. "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. the human form. Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he admitted." They ascended to the first floor. The mattress now hung by one thread only. Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of God. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august. In order "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, profoundly. of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at Restoration. in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the morning song as well as birds. Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. "What's that, peasant?" "Monsieur?" haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such After a moment he inquired:-- under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed out his candle. begins to behold the stars of the tomb? BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we to God. Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were them in Éponine's hand. on her pillow. in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and Not a man in the group stirred. Fauchelevent replied:-- while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. appearances that people affect." the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, something which at that distance resembled a lion. had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man prayer. violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left by exhaustion. and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be can have me arrested when he likes." generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor should be governed only by science." nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist lawyers." not seem to be listening or seeing or living. "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM "I'm hired." off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman for a moment. appeared to limp. disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and return. Drive it out better. been there a moment before. and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a twenty-four flints. boots were giving out, and he said to himself: "If I could but see her Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one consigning something sublime to History. Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." "Business first." gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes it? He did not comprehend. possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" the song by killing the singer. the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and On returning to his room, he communed with himself. liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these profound conviction. flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: He made a sign of the head in the negative. Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those barricade. the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there the tomb were seizing hold upon him. all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, hinges in the presence of the archbishop. captured by a robber might have been. four lines on the first page:--