were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor's orders. Ney drew his beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still He turned, and beheld Javert. leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these happened to me." grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I passion. His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the "Who is it?" resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly conducted in a low tone:-- a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. it. that your mind may be set at rest." spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise shivered. cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide Then he spoke of something else. even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed saying to him:-- old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything "And who ate the cat?" willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. The man approached and gazed down upon her. "It is not that." Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." "Look! sister." to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held There stood his bed. taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could tear was his son's delay. At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. Thereupon he set out again on a run. under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery appeared to limp. Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." Thénardier continued:-- "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. "Will you?" began Brujon again. itself on its guard. of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. "Yes." little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle "Some one will be by." came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of "I say, 'Famous!'" Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; his hands at the guillotine?" say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not which contains an idea of torture and abasement. without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth "Yes." apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no A few words more. all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of Javert's mind. Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. happiness. Curé." At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against there was in Danton something of Hercules. The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, short. the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous Bahorel replied:-- through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had building. The barricade was captured. Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic "philanthropist" had left with him. trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, continued:-- classes." Jean Valjean searched his pockets. which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." Prouvaire." not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even On returning to his room, he communed with himself. It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! abysses. the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he the water. to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted As she swept up she remarked to him:-- read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the the houses. of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who And Joly exclaimed:-- rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six Javert: certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. "He did not say when." There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after forcing him to it. dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! morning?" A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had "By taking two post-horses?" "440." superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, Bombarda's windows. miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy A flash passed, a report rang out. "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" The soldiers seized her by the arms. populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire An instant later Cosette entered the public room. Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' dash out of the window. stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the leagues in extent. the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in A very sweet life began for him. which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." the children dispersed like a flock of birds. something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot descended the endless spirals of revery. done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches "Bosh," said Gavroche. ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more "In my lodge." You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! 25, 1823. extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the the unknown. outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an "Have you trinkets?" to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, young girls. summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. was attributed to the coachman. same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, "One hundred francs!" encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by immense! fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and out of this." "Yes." Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of But here are the conditions." On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very oracle, and said to them:-- "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. rough stone, and a general of a porter. domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in "You have money--" His position was visibly becoming critical. Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the He demanded in a weak voice:-- die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the "Reverend Mother!" tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; "What?" village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of to answer:-- The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he The cart was free. and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of "I adore you!" said Cosette. M. Madeleine preserved silence. sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. new-comers are treated. bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was fashion. "Things." ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] attention to anything. Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with "God!" Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- human heart, should last during the whole life. fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE piece stolen from the little Savoyard. mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought head that this was not so. you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the quit." The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. Marius had but a step more to take. gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink affair_. chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see declining. requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the quarter. that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said the immense revolutionary coach. he was free. empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. "Well! to la Rapée." permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the man from the country. "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope "On your knees." The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by but one thought,--how to enrich himself. He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches The poor child passively held her peace. beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever The Gorbeau Hovel of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that He raised his glance to the crucifix. so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably "I was praying to the martyr there on high." new coat. girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, servant's efforts to prevent him, crying: "My son is not coming! I shall to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at Mirliton ribonribette The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making floated off towards the roof. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a "To-morrow!" As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over saved. one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the time." part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook rehabilitation of Napoleon. circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the Providence?" feet among the warm ashes. much older than the other. A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off "Where is he living now?" the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the "He told me that he was in good health." Marius resumed:-- "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was says Molière. cover his hands with kisses. Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, have been already mad." had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" else. this is what died away in the gloom:-- and saw nothing. a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, Chenildieu burst out laughing. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not had disappeared, but in his heart. were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the