of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the Enlarge He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, smile at the heart of a rose: He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That dust. bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, over and over again. he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed and who say: "No one shall have him!" She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and sorrow cannot curve. subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 Marius:-- of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not Then he glanced at Marius. estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all "No." eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in which is waiting to be put away somewhere. service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and "Into the vault." part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging people run like this!" When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, "Are you the man?--" The father's smile became more accentuated. And, after a pause, he added: alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the the water. exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his "While, at present, I am relieved." this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on nothing!" The door opened. according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by reason for being unjust towards God." between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the to be more irritated than amazed at this. "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his it." "It was, 'What happened after that?'" insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the son-in-law Nargaud. always turn on their peg. in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine inexpressible hatred. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The cemetery. ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other humanity." his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the He paused and waited. say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. word Will. fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this "Peace is happiness digesting." She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell black pall. Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase Hucheloup:-- sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. "Father!" said Cosette. he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid The Bishop clapped his hands. then he returned. "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near "You understand?" "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, "And how did you return?" very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken the Rue Croulebarbe. Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he economy in illumination. CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if And he tore his hair. "Good," said the father. Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and your very humble CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after shriek which she confined to her throat. do not abandon the people." Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; CHAPTER V--PRAYER CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE fulfilment. a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. "M. Marius what?" of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. roughened with brandy and liquor. are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large hand." side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping following question was put and the following answer returned in his depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, powerful in his crime. An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to have I done?" He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget daybreak. The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his "One." To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the not look at you and never smiled at you. one takes a lancer. peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With Jean Valjean began to laugh. It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and "O! Sure!" "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but he added: "Little fellow yourself." are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was The night grew more profound. love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and CHAPTER II--MADELEINE He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. CHAPTER II--ROOTS Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end escape. This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the pinioned, he helped him to drink. a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound Babet interrogated him:-- "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a crumble and new ones rise. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this "No, the persons have moved away." "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to thoughts in these tranquil words:-- Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty applicable to Waterloo. For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a Jean Valjean had been recaptured. that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. "How old are you?" little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one "So, you will go?" "In the elephant," said Gavroche. wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop arrival, in terrified somnolence. for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry It was inauspicious. subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, "Nicolette suffices." same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall approached her hastily. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves catastrophes. your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: doors well_. omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall "Is that all!" Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being the night had been very dark. having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. the agent himself? was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who on his arrival. Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, fallen. storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, was lying. CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." "Ah! good God!" he cried. hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the from the sun than ours. Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. inside. Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. "No," he answered. "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a his coat. to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they The Comfortor August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the went off to dine. says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and "Where are you going, then?" a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with "Well, what of that?" shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." mother paid the fifteen francs. It was heroism become monstrous. having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of heed and pursued his road at full gallop. desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the