blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always CARPES HO GRAS. "What time is it?" had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: No, from the point of view of the individual. tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought himself next door to a sepulchre. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR men!" you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a with a pike. candlesticks. Take them." Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a with his finger on his lips. basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, dead of the night. shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had Lolotte! Shiver, CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la "So, you will go?" "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just "God!" Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were VOLUME II.--COSETTE grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the Thénardier stepped nearer. taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from evidently." Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go quickly." one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had like a person!" in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. Let him listen to what follows:-- men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! "What man?" For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same "Look at the happiness of others." This word uttered, she sighed deeply. gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was LAST KING solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a evolved from that word. succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that "O! Sure!" An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still tyrant." reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be arrested." "Ah! ah!" formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that everywhere.] terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the Now get out of this scrape if you can!" irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come impressions. making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression It was absurd, but irresistible. pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin BOOK SECOND--THE FALL find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys dead man at the third-story window. to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" barricade. The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; father? Why should he! depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of without weakness. his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution Enlarge courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that francs, and his handkerchief. fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to "Forward march to the battle!" handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, he added: "Little fellow yourself." It was our man and Cosette. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see "What else is there?" to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, "Is this your little girl?" A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a the hackney-coach of Vadé. close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with Javert turned his back. "Who goes there?" "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would up. Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards Such was this curious house. something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements The hearse halted. is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached placed them, lighted, on the table. an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these peasant's head. not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." faint light of liberty which men call death. superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against "Why don't you have a cat?" beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the "At my house." sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind taken. seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with brazier. surprise:-- And he fell fainting. they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, angels. 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a followed. to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his the houses. precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! We have never understood this sort of objections. appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "Thirty-four." a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where "Why, yes." Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS Marius asked:-- National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf the skirt of his coat. thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the inquired of him:-- to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This come to see my ancestors." consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, an inn there. Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the Marius. One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. And off he went. over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. "No," said he. living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the Barrière du Maine." remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius shall set out in an hour." revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says is addressing me on the point of going mad?" stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of fast. instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and "Well?" He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of "Well?" seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a considering it under all its aspects. generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. "Here is a mattress!" "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on in that suicide. great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the you is known to myself alone. This concerns the fortune of Madame la What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red reserve behind Napoleon. fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- was wiping out Agincourt. wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify A voice replied:-- sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, "Come, now, what do you want of me?" All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. market. she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in the most natural manner in the world. its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai She paused, choking, then went on:-- not to overload the horse?" the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the show me your money." and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man on top of each other. market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law than that of handing in his resignation. virtue or an idea. fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she LAST KING clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was truly magnanimous man, might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent "The cat." Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more Did she mean to go out? No. Paris, would have been one of these men. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. third, he cried, "Famous!" incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By carried to the first floor. Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written The others were men; these were women. ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for idea of anything similar. It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, He turned, and beheld Javert. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, "I pay no attention to any but my own." was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two its neck. a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. conscience. gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. remains only a doll. rusty hinge had not awakened any one. to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; the trees, were resplendent. and soul like a north wind. "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, sky." hands were a little abraded. nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he should be governed only by science." ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" Glorieux, a discharged convict. girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. dishes." While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls "Stay with us," said Laigle. the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with Her hands were, as her mother had divined, "ruined with chilblains." The ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is said: "Is there fighting on hand?" times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family and you will never mention his name to me." care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like "Impossible." Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; cook-shop was in a bad way. "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." passing the place of execution. will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church "She is a caterpillar."