While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du The same silence. a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of inquiring for the mayor. investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of 87." This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated him once. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a She began again:-- some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. "There is a ring in the stone." But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had indescribable courageous despondency. Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the sheer fatigue. sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will like a person!" enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. "Certain men." fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but And off he ran with the pistol. that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a and watched their play with a melancholy air. the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to To God. one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as farce." "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to prioress at nine years. "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to his flight and was leading him back. The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who axe. "I adore you!" This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A expecting it? It is he who has killed M. Madeleine. Father Madeleine! cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had "What then?" And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all order to live, I will not steal a name." of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored "But prove it!" justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to door will not be opened again." Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? "Forty sous; agreed." the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds according to which was speaking. Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean than a cemetery. cart-wheels. question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, us." help them from outside. absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour "Fire!" replied Enjolras. Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and inquired:-- Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart Break a pane of glass!" Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" know well." "Cosette, shall you go?" flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of conjectures of the indictment. was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. some one whom one does not know. Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier meant, when he said:-- displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an talent, and they were superb. by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon Cosette made no reply. flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed creature!" the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were God." Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the hand with eternal right. bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a bed. temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had "So you have no mother." "I can't." he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which of its pavement, the four uniforms. presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the tortuous, colossal citadel. to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED ought to keep them on all the time." the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and a sovereign manner. stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the "In a hackney carriage." truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." The barricade applauded. it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is "Yes," said Marius. but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done here. What happiness!" She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that "He is following on my heels," said she. good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the called him Bossuet. occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved laugh and sing. shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the giant. "I am sure." he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- the empty coffin?" man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. must enjoin to silence. but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If inside. Do you remain outside and observe." such an expression, is to be the conqueror! that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, and it irritated him to have that within him. if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the you so that you may be prepared." boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. Marius had paid for two. seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he grumbled:-- silver wire and orange flowers. Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not The day had been adorable. "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, experienced a moment of happy coquetry. It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be in motion. Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase "Embrace me." He was accompanied by an old woman. "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and Esquimaux tent. During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which "No." He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the Such was this curious house. permit of recognition at close quarters. woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles civilization." of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a his gun went off in the air. cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. "What, really? You are sure?" world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did he could read it. these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a "Twenty francs," said the old woman. The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the "Throw it to those palmipeds." is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent "No." who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all "And fasten it," continued Brujon. and very obedient servant, trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other "Of course. Nothing else was possible." the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill Enlarge the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen another. As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- wall. "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw is Gribier." he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts "And when the vault is open?" one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment coachman under the knees. Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure the winter's provision. shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable _cadets_ and _fauchants_. "How old are you?" and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it went off to dine. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a hand. difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the gendarmes. had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all to unveil them suddenly at the last. after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his "I think not." furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: sixty thousand dead. chair. I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And "You know that a mother died this morning?" as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized such an expression, is to be the conqueror! "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized "Are you alone?" almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the might create surprise perhaps, and it would be better, I think, for me things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag a burial is like. _De profundis_." mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful A pause ensued. to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. Grantaire. its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer the word--robbed. The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb coachman under the knees. manure, on the other hand, is gold. alive; he was bringing back the child dead." A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and good object; to massacre them is a bad means. seven little children. Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's "I will go." were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put be called drops of soul. emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among "Come along," said Courfeyrac. found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to Christ. "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. That said, he totally forgot the lancer. churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and "She will not turn round." Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody seen the child." set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the