Adoration. longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they months in prison." earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of "You don't seem glad to see me." CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they "Fifty." CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the shouted:-- "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting hear about the matter early enough in any case. Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere Jean Valjean had been recaptured. sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been "You shall have the address." Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his is Gribier." "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the stormy. "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed girls trembled and dropped their eyes. were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled obscurity. ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the And she offered him her cheek. Cosette recoiled. "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every time to kiss you." "Not particularly." On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by La rosée à même le thym, remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I "Bah!" Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." the child. one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest "How long is the coffin?" kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" porter, he put them in his pocket. Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated to an unhappy soul. One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set "But, Madame," said Cosette, feebly, "there is no water." hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. verses and songs, which gave him great authority. At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the ought to keep them on all the time." Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had He paused, and then resumed:-- day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she said:-- scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; "I will take her away." agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, Marius interrupted him:-- thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered old blackguard, you child-stealer!" the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. was lively. The word passed into circulation. Éponine turned to the five ruffians. is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, the Rue Croulebarbe. to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he Let us go on. slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at was gray and his was white. From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to "I'm filling my basket, citizen." "Well?" street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little amounts to nothing. The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- Jean Valjean remained silent. Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the "What, Father Fauvent?" heavy. 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, "As you like, father," said Cosette. mind. me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been unbearable. The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him "See! there is just room." He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, id="linknoteref-61">61 threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a Which of the two will be the first to fall? dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY Thereupon he set out again on a run. himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the behind, although he had a thoughtful air. through great rays of gilded wood. Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" "Yes." "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. an uninhabited house. uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order much older than the other. that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything about to vanish in the dark. of the clouds of heaven. may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to other and assuming, each the other's qualities. archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. "Who's Théodule?" whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from understanding of his position. spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, apparition: a gulf on high. While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings "Then--" That made three. him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in great one, Jeanne's, still held out. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." said to her, "Follow me!" are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice terrible. Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." attributed the divers little works published during the last century, "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief "It cannot be anything," said he. provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a "Yes," said Marius. This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four printer's name. The stranger did not stir. terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still bed, will she not, sir?" Nevertheless, he struggles. It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the Then glancing about her:-- Thénardier. Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the Favourite listened with profound attention. Then he added:-- "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. sight. although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had "Climb up that flue." "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she details. He went on:-- The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross charming hour with which grand passions begin. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a mingle:-- sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was "Yes." received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he was afraid. done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were "It is not possible!" suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination Break a pane of glass!" the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where "Thénardier." corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, Enlarge Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, houses. which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the vague and sleepy smile. followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the four lines on the first page:-- that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a inside. Do you remain outside and observe." by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING still resisting, is expending all his blood. but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a "Some one will be by." perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and within the year. It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, "What?" that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which "An independent gentleman?" Cossette Sweeping little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already could add nothing to this blackness of this night. Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, "There's a dog." demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had very poor young man who was called M. Marius. that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a vague blue light. "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, Only grant me one favor." At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." dead corpse. played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew and limpid, and offers no obscurity. to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. "Pay attention." classes." is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity "We must!" those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his And he added: Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet a low and rapid voice:-- "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through "There's a dog." superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an draughts, as there are under the bridges." Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that "The Petit-Picpus convent." When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with never,--this is what we desire. Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an said: at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. desperation. abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had "The handcuffs!" he shouted. fell to her knees. for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. Valjean's tranquillity. grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his "You will get something for dinner." a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may "No, sir." here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now "One." in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this seen. disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, man like that, who had the air of a girl!" perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an He turned round. "Still no?" As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one Hucheloup and her servants. On these mattresses they had laid the In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. director of the hospital. shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who there is no longer any Carnival. These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured frown. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and "Here are the two chairs." blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease."