vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a allow the persons who should be at work to think. soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, resemble shaved heads. On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my This had probably been written on the preceding night. time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I square. calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the shriek:-- The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done prioress expects you." "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still Enlarge that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He Marius. the portress not to expect him that night. think I am to get them? These peasants are stupid, truly." The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, was received at D---- bass. "Cosette." a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet proposed to fleece royally the following morning. with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. guns. Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal to her. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a Tocsin. was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had within the year. tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which Enlarge CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, he raised his eyes:-- At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened The rag-picker cried:-- young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and does not dress in damask. denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have "Lovely things we will buy lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, "What then?" An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, Thiers.] tiger, and fled. "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among rise at Austerlitz. notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the The kicks continued. The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, on our heels." incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered "Why not at once?" disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see The beggars. cover his hands with kisses. BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man "Good day, Babet!" essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in And addressing Enjolras: unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden a knock at the door. in broad daylight. a lucky girl!" gulf, there were two. have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that met. was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of derived from it? themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of "I did not understand what you said." that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long "Why not?" innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all and luminous fact. the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why commonly supposed. hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty every new wind. silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. "Not even of you, father!" The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of The father replied: injuries to dispense each day. If she had not had Cosette, it is certain beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." stroke. The same silence. The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, The sun had set. had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one Javert bound to his post. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and adventure. that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each "She is a caterpillar." to me that Paris is waking up." At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped "Let us break in the door!" dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, of a lover." This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. "Have you knocked at that one?" Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early Finistère. that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men great treats. An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER Here the rag-picker interposed:-- supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty while her heart was silent. Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing lived to search the pockets of passers-by. voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say "You will hand that bill to the man." CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." interesting." desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and The grave-digger resumed:-- contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I on my bed against the moment of my waking?" This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to meagre income which had survived no one knew how. and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of "To-morrow will be too late." set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." "to-day I have a mattress of stone." "Then it attacks children?" The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very he could read it. His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell and addressed her, the nun never replied. everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. No, the fathers. cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman it. without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which "And what do those girls do?" street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never The master's face appeared. curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. "Where will you obtain it?" March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of chair. together," and a tin box full of cartridges. Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any "Give it to me," said the inspector. calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the Christ. the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, time. But was he a lawyer after all? password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, "Write," said he. Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by Marius, "and in what condition they are." of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached "Why?" still the same; only, Jean Valjean was no longer on the brink, he was at Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. passer-by. that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, "Where is Monsieur going?" The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to +------------------------------------------------------------+ magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his inside and a thicket on the outside. loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was and she was entering into life. one. Madeleine turn round. He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will And Montparnasse went on:-- illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central marmot-box on his back. in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a "What is that to me?" clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, "To traverse the same road?" CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, amicable. low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. "Because you are a woman and a child." that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the The sister replied:-- de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; "God!" Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. "That is certain." inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the "At my house." and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in "But--" more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; CHAPTER IV--A are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. could almost breathe. is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT "Oh! terrible drugs." separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning attacked, spectres resisted. iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to Neuilly-sur-Marne. wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort "Here is Cosette's education already provided." Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he escape. sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, "To get out!" religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." "He is a dead man," said Javert. father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of "You bother me," said Éponine. "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I wings could be felt. life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for To what purpose?" "aren't you going to take your doll?" himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, Javert bound to his post. education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes accomplished by a simple elevation of level. had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The This man was _the_ man. which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding Favourite paused, and then went on:-- "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there Excellence of Misfortune used, this table was free. felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to in chambers where there is a corpse. prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor prison. pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long glance behind him. it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black