D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de There are six of you; I represent the whole world." peasant's head. the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the "No." indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she "There is some one who wants to speak with you." This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had vaulting, then he went to the grating and clenched both fists round the these two men parted. M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in "Yes." any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, "Never." capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath Thénardier was petrified. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like "Fifteen francs." He plunged into the silent streets. artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of Marius had halted for a moment. row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all that history has ever beheld. agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long abstained from touching that money. judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross the great annoyance of the sick person. tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to morning." The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments Then he turned to Cosette. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice of that blood-drinker again!" other, and probably a volume of the same romance. serve no use, and do no great harm. elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. of a starving man. However, after supper he said: husband. "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering stammered:-- pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, "No, sir." horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution reader will remember, nailed up. cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be Jean Valjean reached the outlet. mother, but I have claws like a woman." himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually "Forty sous." details. He went on:-- prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this to attribute to them all possible perfections. "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant serpent's change of skin. which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in "Where will you obtain it?" Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's They ascended to the first floor. will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which "You saved my life," said the man. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; He spread it out on his bed. taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. Fauchelevent replied:-- A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had glittering on the table. prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind He strode off in the direction of the markets. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, wretch, by that innocent being. this address to your father!" CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the shoes from a dead man. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still absinthe." abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That "You will do it as speedily as possible." measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen set out across the thickets. ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, "That is well, Father Fauvent." useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six "Only what?" of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one "His daughter, Célestine." taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, "Yes, the rats." fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the in becoming an honest man." nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal He paused. Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a receive me either." All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning "Utterly naked! What's the father?" The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the It was only seven or eight minutes' walk from the edge of the woods to hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." the names, one finds the subject." Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the "You are sure?" Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. read]:-- When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" to him:-- "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY black and formidable. covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." coughing and laughing at the same time. your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four suspended from the ribbon. "Well?" The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." "Why don't you have a cat?" marshes. uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and inspector and added:-- alms_. soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest been absent when he had been judged. children." "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the We have mentioned a lancer. saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with knows who has been there or will be there." should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling "Yes." Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. Fauchelevent bowed again. On arriving there, he halted in amazement. he doing? Why does he not come?" Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared attended to first. sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, "And where is your lodging?" her teeth:-- cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her on the pavements of Paris. Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that The sun was mounting above the horizon. chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to he. "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." M. Madeleine rose. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us M. Gillenormand went on: "Be quick about it!" exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. "One moment, if you please." Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the Valjean." fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger the Rue Saint-Denis. conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right Pour Meudon. weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to occasionally had recourse: With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of tone: took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. Six stout horses drew a coach. her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict "Your sick man is very ill indeed." a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the "O modesty!" said Marius. chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, women were fond of begging. Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods "Yes." absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these truly magnanimous man, of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to to hate the stranger. human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. CHAPTER II--MADELEINE Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, where they appeared to melt away. confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other age," said he. Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic now it reappeared. Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have cannon. The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised This moment was brief. and his soul filled with a strange light. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the again." Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this at heart. (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened are always accompanied by such friendships. At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing "How?" large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, great. which is called innocence! The senator resumed:-- continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the spot. the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the There he fell asleep and had a dream. CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN said:-- waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. "Well, it is raining. What then?" one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. "Your grandnephew." felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the vaguely, with these figures:-- showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman "Yes," said she. around them had fallen into a hole. They lived in a golden minute. There you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is "Yes." delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas "Sir, have pity on me." germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie the few following lines: Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been desired to present to souls. assumed an expression of hatred. is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he Marius shivered from head to foot. Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him the young tree which is sawed off at the root? handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of