among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was "No." CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE "I cannot." grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand the Café Musain. The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and Valjean. beheld, but it was grand. All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we "But she will hear." gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. one could understand one's position in the city; above the "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will not see the person. The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus from the convent." All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of And the bystanders laughed. a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between seem to me to be ill." "But we must live, we must eat--" Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade meant, when he said:-- brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. The murmurs redoubled. BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- new-comers are treated. seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to who, though slender, are extremely strong. having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole thanks!" There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass length she cried:-- neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least in communication with each other. discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to resumed:-- he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He "But it is forbidden." Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She other something moving through the smoke. smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, more." on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but "What! so it's that imp!" barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Succor from Below counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was upon the ashes on his hearth. stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the she was trembling. life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything "Colonel Sainval." including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if She resumed:-- gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. Jean Valjean listened. The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his mien was remarked by Courfeyrac, Enjolras, and Combeferre, but whom cap." "Why?" the birds are exhausted. Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting "Paris in Pantin to-day." the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the written the following:-- If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not "Well?" the captain to show himself. "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" the most natural manner in the world. that his first duty was not towards himself. one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard is not a caste. by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced "You will get something for dinner." garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial had been able to remain in France. contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there "No." We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and accompany me if you choose." He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will be called drops of soul. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if "Feel how cold I am," said she. interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor "But I must have my money." I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of thread.' immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only increase in courage. Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the "He did not answer my question." get you again!" CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the "What's your name, portress?" Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the difficulties of being a king. which is waiting to be put away somewhere. are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to "With this rope," said Babet. nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." "Will you open, yes or no?" great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which the sound proceeded. fire in less than a quarter of an hour. and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did position! of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine himself with Boulatruelle. we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. and luminous fact. So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in A glance had wrought all this. in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- "Let us knock!" cabriolet." chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness suddenly burst out crying. other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. D'un écrit apocryphe Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush Nevertheless, he was going thither. one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the called _double pickings_. and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the may be kindness in the broom. of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA "Well, am I anybody?" Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived that they forgot that it was fine. the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad and he said to himself: "It is he." clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows on the horizon. "Oh! terrible drugs." his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent blossomed forth from the twilight. curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. And he raised himself to a sitting posture. is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and are using up our ammunition for nothing." was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the Why not love the whole of France?" All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become at most. day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier table, and he added:-- that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which to seize him once more. centimes." that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, Evil One." was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent Little Gavroche away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. certainly unexpected. great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. formidable shrug of the shoulders. letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. hovel, but there was still tobacco. themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 a broad smile. be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, Mother Ascension and yourself." that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young the sleeping Bishop. La rosée à même le thym, five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled FANTINE." another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he on the ground, and took his departure. Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not cured first." In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their heart. He stammered:-- equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu revolution? The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and "Which?" modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with have already indicated this characteristic detail. depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the Babet interrogated him:-- gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will served." said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at Jean Valjean had been recaptured. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? He gave the door a push. action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. "You have two pretty children, Madame." "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over "You?" "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it They arose to obey. Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. "That makes forty francs." its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point He took breath, smiled and resumed: strides. His eyes were extraordinary. the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every "Who?" demanded her father. soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Madeleine made no reply. All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, an expression of thanks. stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron have already indicated this characteristic detail. brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white cheerfulness. drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was