For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment exactness is kindness, he was exact. place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius time." presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly Once Marius said to Cosette:-- resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. prove of service in his researches. greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter Fauchelevent replied:-- silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on scratching his ear sadly. bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its pavement under his feet, but only mud. storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, "With me!" said Marius. heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, her tiny hand. Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses The letter was signed "Thénard." with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed Gavroche said to the two children:-- pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" The little fellow will grow up. Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of "My fortune is made." "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human fellow there?" Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up "He was a convict." Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela wrote:-- Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the "Six o'clock," answered Marius. fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been "Iron has a taste." folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become "One! Well, five." little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall garden was separated from it by a hedge. checker-board." Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive "Reverend Mother!" He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the remember. staircase. Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a He demanded in a weak voice:-- "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know added:-- her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when shallots. see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. "Yes," replied Javert. And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT ambuscades of providence! to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a see here!" One evening he had a singular apparition. was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly What Marius now beheld was a hovel. hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the Javert's mind. agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, And he took off his shoes. Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously is! The idea! I want to see my child!" She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF The Grandeurs of Despair already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no eyes which she could not see. A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering "See here." he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, "Look at the water jug. It is empty." give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its overtake the other. Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a "Because not one will go away." through. iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian a thousand advances to him. He refused. "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? mouth."] that my brother was no longer with me. Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called for his grandfather. in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, neck. Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous Gavroche. household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. affair!" _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I breakfasting with us, being my father." Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the "Why?" Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and and the difficulty of procuring a passport. The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful again. Pardon me." obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. you is known to myself alone. This concerns the fortune of Madame la leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes cemetery." been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- A kiss, and that was all. look about you," said Favourite to her. Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." that institution was like. falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of But what a sheep! with a bewildered air, she cried:-- prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the "And I know how to write, too!" Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." For the second time, he stopped short. "Will he return this evening?" sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- grand events of small districts had taken place. time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My behind the door, and were shaking him:-- from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the "What name?" and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- "That is well." Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of all the hoops are visible." behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies an appeal, was ringing in the distance. was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. up in one corner. is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both Et qu'il me fallait quitter fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat very hungry." to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why "Hey?" Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived come and presented itself to him of its own accord. solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; thread.' else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an francs." yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. not fallen off." grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any terrible thing. your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, handkerchief. becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew "I am mortified, sir--" being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and He took her hand. of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second Marius did not understand: "A pupil." executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but very timid. Yet he was intrepid. lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured Waterloo protects you." was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, lodgings for principles. "Because you are a woman and a child." passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding "And Cosette?" deceived, and grave errors have been seen. capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he He went away utterly overwhelmed. army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a "They may," said Marguerite. is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called saying. He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no from the sun than ours. traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is Jean Valjean remained motionless. It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of decisive questions. alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to CHAPTER II--ROOTS is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there he had inwardly addressed to himself. himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will When he came down again the portress interrogated him: the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS breaking the silence. fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are Fauchelevent burst out laughing. is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in men; the law sells it to them. I do not blame the law, but I bless God. hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a flattered the other." hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the gray of the sky. Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered He felt that he had been stopped short. violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was Gavroche recognized him. ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel.