the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the "You?" having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said The moon was sinister over this plain. CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he Adoration. Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; premeditation of _coups d'état_. supplied his place. airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- "Impossible, sir." Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have Fauchelevent replied:-- black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest perfectly, and replied:-- In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep billows, it floats, and it reigns. to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to "At my house," replied the old woman. than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of trousers sewed up again. The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. She murmured:-- risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect It was the doctor entering. convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL then disappeared. her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the "Who was it that was eaten?" two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand he wrote: high; that is the only difference. forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, the darkness at the entrance of the hut. He entered and said:-- In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a Marius kept the pistol in his hand. Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the "This is the place," said one of them. harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips "How long ago?" one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and "What is the meaning of this?" The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils The night grew more profound. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell and let us tear off the mask. "Come in," said Marius. Alps. You must be cold, sir." Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that Etc., etc. "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] was heard to open and shut again. himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, "I." HIS ARM limb. "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" "Where is the entrance?" dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, read. knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face had become terrible. were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the much did you say that you owed?" of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As Montparnasse answered:-- two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other left for him to desire. her journey, and had reached M. sur M. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the "The cowards!" ------ once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as She continued:-- "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. moments before. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly the hands, after passing between the legs. "Well, am I anybody?" all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some A third shovelful of earth fell. retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in Jean Valjean caught himself up. From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is dwelling of the Bishop of D---- about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One the pavement. Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no of that day. good also. So he was becoming depraved. ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, They heard a manly voice shout:-- become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half confidence. girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains "And who ate the cat?" On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. the rhododendron was happy now. Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain camels." The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the could be read in the folds of the flag. The coachman turned to the inside travellers. times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' of his meditation? with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening "Yes," said the man. La gloire et la guerre, The barricade applauded. of him! The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony "That's it." he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a for us." that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; much the worse for that head." certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon Jean Valjean continued: to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, young. "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." It was heroism become monstrous. The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once coachman under the knees. out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who There he halted. air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the barricade, and...." in the mire. to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. "Yes." "What?" demanded the prisoner. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a Cosette, that man is an angel!" adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones the two entered the tap-room. had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. quarrel!" Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper "Listen, Théodule." That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. "Then I understand the girl is rich?" punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of "Why are they fighting?" Barrière du Trône, at Capel's, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute "What is your rank?" obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with "That's well." it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and drama as a piece which one does not understand. dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the The child did not breathe. "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words "Throw that outside." involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a He simply took flight. The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- nothing was lacking. false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining "What will you say to them?" armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his was dead, and a chill ran over him. He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his Enlarge stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left rat_ in his hand. squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen "Hello! And I took it for an enormous, enormous dog!" "But before that--" steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior "Gold; here it is." agitation. chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should amazement. "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. "You?" He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." This was the grandfather. farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it arrival, in terrified somnolence. The married pair disappeared. outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal "Yes, sir." Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." "The pig! I have no more." a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." And the mother's pale face grew radiant. 87 Rue de Vaugirard." fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another something else. The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; Gorbeau house had come to nothing. Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called "Are you there?" That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be "Adorable!" he exclaimed. ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- paying for it. livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." "Untie the gentleman's right arm." finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a "I tell you that he's the father." at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face the roofs of La Force. the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed Power itself is often a faction. Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. rapid but very low tone:-- off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully wanted of me." a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. firing, and sang: of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much Whither? ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had "Yes!" approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could women were fond of begging. felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of