slang. where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled Adoration. who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, the number. the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore "A lass." In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A her, and a holy one it was. She sold all that she had, which produced over and over again. extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past the last." The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility "No." prove of service in his researches. M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising "Granted," said Javert. "Father!" said Cosette. whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of glittering on the table. He followed the usher. the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on statue. one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they And again she offered him her brow. As we stroll the faubourgs through, I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket in the cellar. in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, be understood. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes As he spoke, Jondrette did not look at M. Leblanc, who was observing This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, more ecstatic. a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they "Where is Montparnasse?" asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had "After us!" yelled the ruffians. arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She than that of handing in his resignation. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. his knees on the wall. located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, don't know where it is." have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as should be an imperceptible slipping away. see me. It's horrible here." In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second harshly, but that it has progressed." When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a Jean Valjean reached the outlet. long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years "Excellent." "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. "I." she should faint. eating-house-keeper very far. weeping:-- "I have the address." priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the L'Esplanade-du-Sud. as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through "What do you wish, sir?" the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small it was impracticable outside and in. the rule greatly aggravates. whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The whom he met. "Good day, Gueulemer!" "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a He was even the author of the monumental window. as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors "You will see." Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." "Have you it about you?" was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been done." flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her "You have company this evening, no doubt." to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. "Where is he?" seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no "Immediately," responded the host. While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with that they forgot that it was fine. not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la suppose a man is to live?" his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and not be there." "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight "By taking two post-horses?" greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the "Look at the water jug. It is empty." was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a the death agony. It was almost an explosion. linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the He turned, and beheld Javert. repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more apostrophized Théodule:-- dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp We shall make the attempt. Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, Foundation me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing called _double pickings_. "Well, in two hours, then." these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore human heart, should last during the whole life. "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but the hands, after passing between the legs. from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to strange for such services, honorable manners. moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: useful." speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work rapid but very low tone:-- abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he further. whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed everything. at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. her. The good woman appeared as usual. apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more Cosette halted in alarm. The woman shook her head. The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a forces which are their two motors: faith and love. of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he him and had not touched him. which she has slept for the last twenty years." whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, the third; this is what remained:-- superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the light to shine through. pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows his position. reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, COSETTE HIS ADDRESS The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the And if he let go his hold? the absence of the wolf. three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses The Grandeurs of Despair Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and of things!" skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, "From the spring in the forest." light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG in which she was still pretty. of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources listen to, outside my shutters. But day after to-morrow you will come The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- VOLUME III--MARIUS. there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden "How long ago?" conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which as to write." his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could "Hitched to a cabriolet?" nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a id="linknoteref-25">25 "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a "The proof that God is good is that she is here." M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:-- the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with "Just as I am going to do." The bell struck a second time. "A two again." to don his uniform. legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man "Very cold. It is snowing." over. trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- Marius left the house. there; the girl had disappeared. newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he Thus their life clouded over by degrees. man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots "Why?" twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated himself in the future. very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last "Look! sister." here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was "All right," said he. of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than "Is it all over, Jondrette?" Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I The hearse halted. imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. "Come, now! And my mother?" possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic "His son?" said the porter stupidly. Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes "Alone." cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- "I can't." taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence "You thanked me a while ago." occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his of the colossus could be distinguished. knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out turned to his wife:-- these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was "Is it you, peasant?" misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come idea, then a hope. A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that CARPE HO RAS. melts in love, which is its sun. the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she receive me." appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had their work along the side-paths. "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor crack of his door. him.23 blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. will perform miracles." BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, and his soul filled with a strange light. "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning glimpse of in 1814. the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, Glorieux, a discharged convict. shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the for the different societies. I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned 30 (return) [ A democrat.] one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated to him:-- fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble Night had fully come. if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That great. off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the wore in the galleys?" oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate To tell the truth, neither of them slept. came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You then raised her voice:-- "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that