of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's lost. "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her "Fifteen francs." window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we He redoubled his pace. that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. Marius grasped both her arms at once. "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, "My horse has not been watered." reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, his head. go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." who was a thinker. Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the "What is the secret?" of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in "You know that a mother died this morning?" Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not "The sun is on the point of setting." suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN commanded the assailants. "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but "How many bushels?" In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a Was this to be endured? No. incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, "I have my papers," he said calmly. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of Cosette herself. now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." new-comers are treated. The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking of the clouds of heaven. there is no longer any Carnival. At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of oneself, one is firmly held." The grave-digger resumed:-- of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. continue his travells. Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the This was "their first quarrel." A glance had wrought all this. to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight a Benedictine nun. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From to the realities of life. all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to "A corpse? I have none." men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." little girl whom Fantine heard singing. but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail it:-- There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a Enlarge "At La Force." barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women no less fine a prize for the authorities. the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in them. Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been ---------- because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three He was desperately in love. "Are you a police spy, sir?" on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the Javert had not uttered a single cry. "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, scratching his ear sadly. Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, suffering bestows. so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, "I don't want your money," said she. father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of like a drop of dew on a flower. the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to ghouls." one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes "It was not good for her; it hurt her. "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, man the Bishop of D---- was. have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by listen. One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; perceived neither Basque nor the candle. that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It shop over the way." If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it than that of handing in his resignation. becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. that your mind may be set at rest." "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day Foundation kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again decisive questions. stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. steel pistols in his trousers pockets. had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not his coat. peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at catch them one by one:-- CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing confidence. would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These prioress expects you." the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed grating. greater thing is there?" come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good complete question. The dandy fled. illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur round:-- Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; conscious. And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN the portress not to expect him that night. understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! descended the endless spirals of revery. been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come To-morrow will be peace. in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, humble soul loved, and that was all. "I." C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. he would have expired with grief. Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than "Hey?" said Gavroche. crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the he had restored it all. "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of the mendicant on the highway:-- of the bourgeois. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have taciturnity was of the beaming order. distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. to others may not be received in law . . ." Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence to get out." "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search "And that one?" path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one cannon. phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I us something to breakfast on." September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full darkness. upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches "Fire!" replied Enjolras. "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and in the name of principle!" candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a She was still trembling. nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of Dante in folio nous servait de table The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the she did not know herself. Every morning she went to a printing office, remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Thénardier replied:-- sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, deliver the letter. Give it here." The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. again. uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous he could read it. paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale "Go and fetch Cosette." Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: prose must not. Ubayette. The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their the child. "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- possibilities. He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of and absolute duty. be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. matter. He replied:-- alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a Then he turned fully round towards Marius: "All day long?" interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by Quand on passait dessous, God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a their trousers. only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon already?" exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his Nevertheless, on the night from the 18th to the 19th of June, the dead This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions conjectures of the indictment. crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing maintained, on the sides of the boulevard, these two interminable moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, morning." She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot be watered, and let that be the end of it!" them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: "Well?" with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? "Monsieur?" a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place "Well! to la Rapée." It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a "What wine?" he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam terrible pile a few paces distant. would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad all these happy people. may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other Nuncio lived. idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, loves what is great. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR chamber without saying a word. that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against The boy was already far away. by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean grave, firm voice:-- fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We He simply took flight. peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and Fauchelevent replied:-- her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would was changing its aspect every moment. Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether mayor was there; what had she to fear? without. If he has no doctor he will die." resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! Father Gillenormand, to himself. _The Mother_. How is that, my child? not slept either. put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of