and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some "What is it?" The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose used, this table was free. indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had Monsieur." God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, passed. have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what There stood his bed. physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and suddenly fell back on her pillow. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was "By the way!" his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the Valjean. "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed Enjolras issued this command: In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not taken. An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, seem to me to be ill." He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted "No," he answered. By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had ought to keep them on all the time." amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and "I was sent away from the other inn." the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; of the preceding day had actually come. another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in always a good thing to have a pin about one." those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette "What does Monsieur wish?" how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the "No, sir." soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy gratitude. mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" that accordingly there was no danger. for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these Power itself is often a faction. the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" "No," replied the husband. "You certainly are here." Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so you live now?" prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the heart. from father to son. community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick for a moment. he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, "He is coming!" "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out produced a gentle, monotonous noise. These things are charming when one A year passed; then another. Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has against it. the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears uneasiness. intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National invisibility. seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for "Will he return this evening?" "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the indifferent matters, in spite of himself. father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the it's all the same to me, come on!" "There is the beginning," said he. all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts others. vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return of which they must never speak. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, presence. and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the is broken between one street and another. been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- meagre supper. They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the He replied in a low voice:-- collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant "What is it?" table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue conduct this creature to jail." my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. time." when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. things. who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." "And your name?" man pass. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. of his day. He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as "And I also." relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" beginning. was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion Still, he felt that he had lost time. of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by heap of rubbish." Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room from infirmity. which was particularly dangerous. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a Here a short digression becomes necessary. brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. trace of that hideous vision remained. of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood the birds are exhausted. understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was wood, iron and cords. "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous Copyright 1887 opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le "Which one? the old one or the new one?" caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin outlet. Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could again. "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; else. CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle "A cannon-ball." march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." answered, "I have money." He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to dead corpse. The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do PHENOMENON which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian d'Urfé mingles druids with them. the window. caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for forty thousand francs. beyond. "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is "Blachevelle, I adore you." young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular fall like a ripe fruit. streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being and let us tear off the mask. He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes "A living person." "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." circumstances. "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which taken. Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her "Set out." erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the And she pointed to Cosette. "To-morrow will be too late." projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The He felt an immense joy. It is probable that he did not hear them. And he set out on the march once more. Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the gentleness. Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and behind the door, and were shaking him:-- Fauchelevent replied:-- Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, Yes. said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible up and replied: "Javert." husband she lodged and fed her young brother. "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's "Where is it going then?" Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the "That is the concern of the good God." thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended brought in. idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France "For life." Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not What was he to do? And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are not there."' encountered something strange. On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE "Who?" demanded her father. This made both of them laugh the whole evening. words. That Madame had sent her to inquire why M. Jean had not come on Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; "Why?" remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing from a gloomy edifice. Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a growing ever more serene.