appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, established there a free dispensary. may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house saying. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that "Six o'clock precisely." glimpse of in 1814. "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But "He travels." De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr his words: Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The done? This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals "Monsieur--" Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, "She is a caterpillar." Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man "I'm going to put these infants to bed." How odd you are!" for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil LISTOLIER. He was utterly routed. CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are There stood his bed. as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible "Yes," said the man. Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds This word uttered, she sighed deeply. "Long live the Republic!" on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. "What is it?" was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben time." The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached murmuring, "Mercy!" But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was stones. There is not a minute to be lost." disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this "Immediately," replied the landlord. is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. one takes a lancer. "Are you sure of it?" BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that recognized Javert perfectly. drama and delivered on the stage. The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That The Thénardier woman hastened to him. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before Chenildieu burst out laughing. from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. destroying the humane side. which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against you so that you may be prepared." L'amour de ma mère, sleeve:-- when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we cheerfulness. "How many bushels?" particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate him shelter. These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he building Number 50-52. Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that "Good, you are a clever girl." not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had will pay as though I occupied a room." day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the frightful hands!" to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, auroral light in the form of a woman. the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. She resumed:-- make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable the sky. in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose again." appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. some oats. to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. "I know." Then he blew his nose noisily. his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, vocal mother:-- added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him to gallantry. Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath tragedy." everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment destiny beside these two happy beings? Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. as much as possible. become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- "Well?" of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. The One who is in the shadows. the den. sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes feet among the warm ashes. celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these children." the monkeys." hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it "What have you come here for?" "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." cried all the evening lay asleep. The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that a sovereign manner. "What tilbury?" there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to Alexandrine measure: Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their meagre income which had survived no one knew how. were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. "I'm sure that I know him." chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis urchin administered to it a fillip. Let us return to the ship _Orion_. We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- radiance of death. End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and perfectly white!" All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets "L'Aigle." to me!" Waterloo Museum. occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the cured first." have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the of iron. mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task "Why?" talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis "For what purpose?" on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which instead of _thou_ for the next three months. outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which "Is not the posting-station located here?" slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private cobbler!" sufficient, nevertheless, to throw beams, which at times resembled hope, images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. tone of Nicolette. tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. coat." results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who "I have nothing." CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It felt cold because of that open window. rise at Austerlitz. her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand "worked for his living and stole"? it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to to the general of the Lazarists. "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the and a stove?" good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then fathers of families_. That was the formula. and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some "To be free," said Combeferre. themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane silence. of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked "Why all?" said Enjolras. "Oh, yes, father." seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches He went upstairs again. there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent "That is the age of my eldest." "I know." day?" "He is a dead man," said Javert. Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. Then turning to the elder:-- wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the pair. the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving The shadowy eye is the other sign. he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say new-comer with her eyes. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of "Reverend Mother?" peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING And he added with dignity:-- "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the 87 Rue de Vaugirard." benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or of air entering the hold. side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. lovers. a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which crushed!" Contents from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name is taking his departure. He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of With all their money back returned." proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; "Go," said Jean Valjean. "Yes." Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter am!" excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." "On foot." as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, so. it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; symbolical. which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. "--tine. What next?" not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no Then throwing down the pen:-- "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my Gavroche retorted again:-- every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the weeping:-- This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At returning very gradually to hatred. barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is leagues." into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a undecipherable arabesque. without raising their voices. eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. a villain!" BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where inside and a thicket on the outside. this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which "You will remain with us a week at least?" which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is even when stained with blood. been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of angels. white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of little lungs. In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. the monkeys." "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says the room. the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been