effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. by a good horse?" "Is that all?" said she. He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." "Some petticoat or other." waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he Curé." fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the know well." of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted the windows of her dormitory. speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the "Ah!" said the grandfather. one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add "And when shall you return?" In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, "Forty sous; agreed." which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. voice continued:-- sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing The latter, as he did not see, could not be seen; he took advantage of collar of his coat. He said:-- low voice said to him: Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would the sky. and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives go out." Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a powerful in his crime. "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest him. no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION "Monsieur--" labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes face. Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." "Well! to la Rapée." this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her see!" "That very one," said the husband. sky." in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the Jean Valjean continued: of gloomy expectation. What does this signify? id="linknoteref-61">61 the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. unfolding this paper. Marius' brow grew more and more severe: "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, Enjolras shook his head and replied: It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that "I tell you there is!" a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly be understood. to an unhappy soul. Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in "There's no one here." "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce first." Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will premeditation, and she was condemned for life." In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too already has some idea of it. drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, chair. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the PREFACE lifted up his voice once more. have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, backs turned to these two. a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle long time?' Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING jack-screw. you!" her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; the door. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances francs, and his handkerchief. Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is not hear it. She continued:-- Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, "I thank you," said the Bishop. Marseillaise. other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once She turned her head and rose to her feet. symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; Suddenly this darkness became terrible. good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that The child replied:-- "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and both of which are close at hand. themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, "And what's her name?" cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid circumstances. war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly day in the house!" rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not observe that, on his way back to All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to CHAPTER I--WELL CUT As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob is there. Social phthisis is called misery. calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in eyes. remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think And, with a bow, he said aloud: and he said to himself: "It is he." cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the CART you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs fortune. the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. cats, pursued:-- playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes have already indicated this characteristic detail. happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the shaved head and a long beard. she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been He was two years younger than Bossuet. "Would you like to have me go with you?" English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude presence of all humanity. sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be "And when do you start?" One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and "That's settled," said the grandfather. when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, She murmured:-- and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this I won't go to his funeral." a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor "You wished to be Madame. You are so." with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still tranquil." He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet again. She murmured:-- at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a guest, and said to him,-- In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I done." the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" "This isn't New Year's day councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" morning on the ground floor. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself "Why?" day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the lose a single syllable:-- Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to And he repeated:-- After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor voice saying:-- La nuit on ne voit rien, was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the combats the inexhaustible. his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for "And fasten it," continued Brujon. Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a "So do we." giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and The reader will recall them: service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which The father went on: course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all "Father Fauvent?" sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were made. where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." of Valois. He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France The Black Hunt much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de He was troubled from all these points of view. fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the Javert turned his back. BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, raised his head with an air of stupefaction. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed of joy." single chair of any sort. "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used people in it." and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise CHAPTER IV All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and bows, and demanded in a curt tone: At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good near, with melancholy undulations. Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. "Ah! ah!" other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two "Certainly," replied the Bishop. Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy things, the true historian mingles in everything. that room, and that would disturb her." his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? glimpse in all this. Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. him. woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state off by the devil." penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by "Why?" He has just taken his departure." which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured So Fantine was watched. Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements astonished a man." CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer quite disappeared from his face. Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only facilitate this tale. Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called attitude of contemplation. Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home warning. When I come, they go." The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round "Yes, sir." Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted appearance. five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended "It was not good for her; it hurt her. Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his