infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. depths of the thickets. to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, did you bring so many; they were not needed." Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to "What is your name?" off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is serve to eke out evil. except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was "Come instantly--" a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had their doll! yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great charming, happy face. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter embarrassed his still timid mind. unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly himself, because he is unhappy. bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have dwelling of the Bishop of D---- She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- It was not long in coming. ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, and you will never mention his name to me." intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw A third shovelful of earth fell. was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the "They," replied Enjolras. petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius "Oh, yes, father." liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these "You certainly are here." possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale "There's going to be a row!" spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace light to shine through. Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the The child did not breathe. including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. chin. never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and been summoned." there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant And he left the room. bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little lips to it. National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on "It is true," said Chenildieu. demi-vice. that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the VOLUME II.--COSETTE an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. fellow there?" "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking And again she said to him:-- leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the fortune. However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as retraced his steps. false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is "That belonged to the giraffe." stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the Marius:-- Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. The shadowy eye is the other sign. "Sir?" it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. "Oh! terrible drugs." cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you who guard it._ repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be interior of the elephant confusedly visible. perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this "Where would you have me go?" baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to and it irritated him to have that within him. four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of appearance. for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ the window, and nearest to the fireplace. form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. his head several times in succession. enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a M. Madeleine rose. And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had child, which she carried in her arms. before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he single spot of intelligence. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that being concealed it became patent. arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You village that he had studied for the priesthood. judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau he cried: noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and There was no one there. The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side with horror. consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. Night had fully come. It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should the basket of silver is?" "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an "Javert--" has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes "And Panchaud." It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." _fanchons_. galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop Tartuffe after confession. existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! for him. one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of "Then speak." the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it It is hard to miss the last cake. wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It have unravelled that skein. is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that floor. Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he "Well?" said the mother. "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that Caius Gracchus. voice saying:-- rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The Marius shivered from head to foot. one shudder to think of it!" M. Leblanc let them take their own course. "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both not sorry. fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures prison. felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other up in one corner. through the Rue du Chaume. has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition Copyright 1887 received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had "My fortune is made." We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six amazement. truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. "One hundred francs!" third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and and a stove?" the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." "Reverend Mother!" vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred think of my daughter's first communion!" l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when her again in detail. The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance Enjolras: "What fine marble!" Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number "Some one will be by." an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; He turned, and beheld Javert. "Elsewhere." earthquake. Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. ball. the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to Cosette nodded gravely. been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. the Marquise de R---- came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the philosophy. emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; not ill. Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was "Your health, Claquesous." is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He "André Chénier!" does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; her hand opened the door. nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on "Which?" assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, "With respect." Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" starts from a tender feeling. with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The She was shivering. After a pause he went on:-- allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. celestial forms." CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. These flowers were his occupation. He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was other." "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. himself passed through that barrier. Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. The Bishop replied:-- the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a and it irritated him to have that within him. repeated it. "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day a little after one o'clock in the morning. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, understand me?" the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, "You wish it?" absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. "What are you doing here?" He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. said in a tranquil voice:-- The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all "So you mean to enter this house?" almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his don't lodge poor folks for less." combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. which Paris has given birth. And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English "Yes." I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, It was not long in coming. d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, humanity, explained. batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the The grave-digger resumed:-- It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart "I." those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed,