glittering on the table. Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' instant later he had fallen asleep. dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was a knock at the door. of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their pocketed it. he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she country of ours?" Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at He went on:-- yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint "Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent possesses six hundred thousand the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they distant sound of marching. M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I bewildered eye. Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than your very humble we were told. The orchard is terrible. commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère ruffian eighteen years of age. rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- into it. The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, rest. copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that Courfeyrac with a laugh. passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus country, his paradise. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant pole surmounted by a red cap. exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in you two." of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an roof was slippery. disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement and set the candlesticks on the table. dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" "Well, sell it to me, then." begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is was ordinarily cheerful. order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have Second problem: To share it. were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, many guns are there?" Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to "Let me alone!" all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to and deserted men, fall over them once more. nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty like a person!" conscientious. Argus snored all night long. into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and distance and crying:-- intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all He inquired of this usher:-- speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They own which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; with Paris. "Have you knocked at that one?" consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was "Let us break in the door!" her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! Carnival to the Parisians. CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche "Too late." that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months "The end of the world has come," she muttered. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." and began to shout: "Help!" "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. "Yes." had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). "I do not know what you mean." him. the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly d'Austerlitz. fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of francs and ninety-five centibes." occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a powerful in his crime. thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and be. One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and Here a fresh crisis declared itself. "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who from the oratory. to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." up in one corner. added:-- who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. Jean Valjean caught himself up. are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. "The tilbury." grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the The cake fell very near the edge. In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly possible, a breach for the assault. and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, this." "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." "So you have a lodging?" but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and stupid." jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and "Peace is happiness digesting." "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social only in the lower court. noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious The shadowy eye is the other sign. This is what Marius heard:-- silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in with her smile. garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his oracle, and said to them:-- admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in You will deliver Cosette to this person. bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, "I am going to try something." In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He She paused, not daring to proceed further. give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he Yes. Thiers.] Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades epoch. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES "Come, Cosette." sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had Republicans are like." thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, see!" Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. Blücher; he came. fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and respect for darkness. The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been captured by a robber might have been. blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. not be there." neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to but one thought,--how to enrich himself. Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed francs and ninety-five centibes." CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study "In the galleys at Toulon." force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous "The horses take up all the space." having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the the Great with this inscription:-- more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius absinthe." passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre of the twilight. He proceeded thither. on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not Montparnasse answered:-- afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I "Expectations?" enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the evidently elsewhere. Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a "Come in now!" "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only "It is settled, reverend Mother." vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" "I have no money to buy any dinner." eyes. monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the Boulevard Beaumarchais. by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" hands of Providence. distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript which Paris has given birth. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY him. realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big there is nothing in this house." a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; that "she had ways about her." think I am to get them? These peasants are stupid, truly." be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh that he might well be this very individual. an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of Fauchelevent replied:-- desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. "Yes." flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for These four shadows were the four men. on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which He awoke, stammering:-- smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack from behind. then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S 'Tis the fault of . . . " hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. this manner she reached the spring. productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays chair. M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right "What is your trade?" "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. children. "Well?" Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." sweetness. themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED "There's going to be a row!" The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, reached the Richefeu smoking-room. After a moment he inquired:-- stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:--