of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. recall where he had dined that evening. forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you moments before. possesses grandeur of soul. We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned respects, a deferential gravity. He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established Marius did not understand: "A pupil." "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn trouble. Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and convent through humility. Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you that vault Lacenaire emerges. All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver Madeleine shuddered. in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you Juvenal. rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. the grand crisis, the grand test. caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead "How much shall you need?" fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the Marius stammered. "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His "There is a ring in the stone." fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from it!" none the less, a vision. there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the The father went on: "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a aperture. Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events "Everything is as usual." him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained "Where would you have me go?" managed? Where is this coffin?" He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY "We'll fix him." so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust another. the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous time. I prefer to go barefoot." of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of man, in the barricade. They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as by. replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing every comer.] goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. The Resurrection the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells Friday. the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this affair of passion!" an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? And he continued to advance. "And your reason?" I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked He reflected for a moment. CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married Then he turned to Cosette. "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the Progress! blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was reason for desiring that you should know who I am." finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future farce." yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the "That's it." "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling it was least expected. heavy. "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to vague blue light. "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights perfectly secure. virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, The little boys stared at him in surprise. the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. they say if I did not go?" After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, "For life." to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." out in minds. and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth Cosette herself. This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. twelve francs. the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his and limpid, and offers no obscurity. In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything "I am your father." The certificate of origin was complete. and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced "Grantaire will you do me a service?" A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," The man gave a start and raised his eyes. madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right "No." expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this and of gleams full of radiance. Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a crocodile will furnish some idea: to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first While you, at least, are called Théodule." oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition Javert." batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, The traveller saw nothing of all this. combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and He continued to advance. francs." empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men "Here is the grave." Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it They had gone to bed in silence. with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the "We have apples in the apple-room." "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of again. by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He Helena that was seen. nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular The father was saying to his son: chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another FANTINE." whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. measures and calculations with his eyes. playing tricks on each other. debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the "Well, I don't mean that you shall." Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of francs_. at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her that." hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the wherever I am." speak to him in private, and mention no name." her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became had slept in the loft of some stable. to-day, with justice." It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, there. At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. right, and entered the forest with long strides. necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the otherwise than literally. Marius arranged matters so as to be absent at religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. trousers." each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth It was Gribier's voice. entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, war. He would have Cosette or die. of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the complaints." "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, his daughter with him, no doubt. la Perle. the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." mother." you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. nor in the shadow of an army. The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! Nothing had happened. grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been Enlarge to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school "Listen, Théodule." results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing was crouching over Marius. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to CHAPTER II--ROOTS He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a "Yes." that opened on the street. But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused "I will give it," said the mother. These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they Marius' brow grew more and more severe: forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people end in the monosyllable, No. bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of which we have within us." everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, restrained. on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being celebration of love takes place. voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; "Fifteen francs." uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his "Eh! eh!" others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of Polignac!'" Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor "Lovely things we will buy "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no It was the old woman's little boy. These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In first." breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed that shop of the Changer. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly "Monsieur--" one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. "Cosette!" a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the "Yes, but--" on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words her." the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? his hands at the guillotine?" offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something And the long-haired one began again:-- off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every of man, love. mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were cudgel, which was lying on the ground. have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for sentence. that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and