resuscitate it? shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean his flight and was leading him back. Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the "Where does this diligence run?" word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head "Of course. Nothing else was possible." is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, What love commences can be finished by God alone. by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the Thénardier resumed:-- so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the "Don't harm him!" them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her it was stalking abroad through the quarter. by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean from the same person? miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed "Yes, they are fighting." against the outside. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not "Everything is as usual." young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, a gentle voice:-- Valjean. I recognized him also." this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute receipt of the work. The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg immediately." One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in street. He entered it. vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced civilization. He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her it. that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the Still, he felt that he had lost time. Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. in the mire. disappeared; the silence became profound once more, the obscurity became mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, "At the Madelonettes." evolved from that word. "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself Valjean lost consciousness. Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian "Her grandfather." said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. And her mother, no doubt, alas! How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows apparition: a gulf on high. oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. And she caught her father round the neck again. knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to "Why do you say _you_ to me?" at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was gendarme. turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after He drew near to the Jondrette girl. when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their "Don't harm him!" sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH "Why not?" 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have him, as to Cosette, a father. see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had one's self." At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most "While, at present, I am relieved." reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the He continued:-- some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel of the Mediterranean squadron. language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the with the city council." his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the it means prosper." Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a 'Tis the fault of . . . " Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him VOLUME I.--FANTINE. heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more "How so?" encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" "Monsieur?" "Half shares." with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort "Have you your card?" Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of "Yes? '93!" The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything The two teeth had been extracted. The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. ailing soul. The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had together they buried the empty coffin. from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further way or at the side. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Jondrette replied with dignity:-- What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say Thénardier continued:-- in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; his glance dropped to the four uniforms. CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. and shouting:-- BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the Fantine inquired:-- one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently centenarian as erect as a young man. department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- "So, you will go?" that vault Lacenaire emerges. "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to works. the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown them also, muttering: an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. "Who are you?" the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old then raised her voice:-- that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." Let us drink." turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in He eagerly broke the seal, and read: "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him other something moving through the smoke. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In the few following lines: love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in herself that she must know what it contained. recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had her." one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the one." heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined with his nature. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing the Tiber.] singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, "Yes, sir." as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted of that day. are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's other pre-occupations. Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, Enlarge that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty found to be provided with a better light than man. ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor The Jondrette entered. At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." and magistracy. lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. "Yes." case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of in Cosette's shoe. "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to nothing." As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior "So you have no mother." sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two "Well, they were right." reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was occur in parties. hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. nude stomach. "It is light, but it has no cover." insist. sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of He added between his teeth:-- make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade "Reverend Mother?" sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he "I have none." victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely lied abominably. Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in said:-- the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, down from his brow. People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to something." a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be but it would be harsh to condemn her also. that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his statue. of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for humanity. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, surprise. brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." writhed. flower. do nothing more." "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "All! All!" "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the La rosée à même le thym, the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh,