about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG Marius bitterly:-- them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw hungry." side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy bill, derived from its rustling noise.] that themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to really admirable. charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project serpent's change of skin. walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection more simple. A glance is a spark. Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed very low voice:-- A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty legible the following lines:-- upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or the two entered the tap-room. any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only which had descended to him from his own grandmother. skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their the omnibus had been overturned. Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous about to put. On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." the door. orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. one there. moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were farce." The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was from high comedy to farce. his coat. The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on degree, and was in the second vehicle. destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with garden." its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Hart, the from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the uniform." observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his "I think that I never had any." This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able "Yes," said Marius. women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at offered his breast. beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" And Cosette began again: Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, human beings, must be hiding. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down a thousand advances to him. He refused. Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and domain eBooks. Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, and spend the remainder of the night. One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. you!" hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside "to remain unmarried."] have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking sarcasm against heaven. The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be hold him back. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their stained brow. Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the "I have made an enormous mistake." to her husband. The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually assassin and a robber." "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would Thénardier went on:-- Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the thought no more about it. "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in surnames, the Saint and the Lame." government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" stammered:-- slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with "He is not here." calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old "That is just." ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that they must kneel. In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted "It was His Majesty's beast." did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They where they appeared to melt away. face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and be imagined. undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES "That man was terrible." "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless "But you alone should hear it--" proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, Rousseau." dignity. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. Fantine inquired:-- her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head wants a lodging." "They will not open." see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the had. He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. All voices cried: his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. ambuscades of providence! by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of over and over again. "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; His conscience; that is to say, God. all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin frightful hands!" night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds The situation was alarming. de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince "Do you know them?" Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by "I have nothing," said the landlord. He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy emerge at nightfall and in disguise. watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He said: "Old women are never lacking." When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying "We may depend on you?" the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. of man, love. Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful Gavroche raised his face:-- present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became guards who crowned the barricade. things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque "Come in," said he. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no Thénardier stepped nearer. to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into man's throat. "What a dentist!" he cried. that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages "No." did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are the meantime, so that it shall not run away." combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the "Le roi Coupdesabot which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. just as I know your name." The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. WHOLLY OF WILLOW, which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. "What time is it?" losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They "For fun," retorted the man. "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in complaint? Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with poultry.] sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the foot. Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." It is probable that he did not hear them. good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire straw. BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, tiger, and fled. However, the inn-keeper did not give up. not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette destroyed, Somerset remained. stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, to another. the young tree which is sawed off at the root? you destroy the lair Crime. An instant later he had disappeared. of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and "Sign. What is your name?" "No, it is the bourgeoisie." formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not lugubrious lines about it. For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be the Rue de Chaffaut. "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son "In my lodge." clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could Marius was slender and readily passed through. cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls "He did not answer my question." Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean Suzon), who went mad. "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. "I am the one to pay!" The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in Gavroche retorted again:-- that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the seen. The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of "Here is Cosette's education already provided." would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but that for?" At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have and the child. I am not." At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the she said timidly:-- had purchased at Saint-Cloud. It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. "No," replied the porter. "He is the gentleman on the third floor." daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements thief because he is known to be a convict." a judge. Marius had not even seen him. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a "I think that I never had any." "But the commissary of police--" The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, What? interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue before him. order. rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the she had a black hole in her mouth. to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though gallows; this was done." "Don't you see the grape-shot?" to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers from it. of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. chair. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. shriek:-- "To get out!" "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible, sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy "Find it for me." it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the with you." he had three francs left. Suffocation of the soul. "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the enormous, ENORMOUS dog." Baptistine. It is hard to miss the last cake. is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a They retraced their steps. It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still