to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your grave, firm voice:-- triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. That is why 87 Rue de Vaugirard." ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, thieves had given him. to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's other something moving through the smoke. the waistcoat across his breast. The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his "Here are the two chairs." They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. bite, he exclaimed:-- melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most taking it. a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? But here are the conditions." All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the children drew close to Gavroche. CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER Gavroche caught sight of him:-- "That is well." and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. work again. meditated. herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my PHENOMENON Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 "Fire!" said the voice. we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could "Wife!" he cried. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, "Hitched to a cabriolet?" the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and "There's one thing you ought to do." a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they in the morning?" Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its her!" porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he "Little one, you are the Queen of France." "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and you defiance with this word: I love you!" She had recognized the gamin. the Minister of War and the general in command of the department "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the "A secret?" Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The thing which is full of splendor. "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. "You are a wheelwright?" long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the Let us finish with this man at once. "That's true," said Bossuet. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER time." This word struck Marius. thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The another. colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always the most natural manner in the world. the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- barricade. flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the great. the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four "Well?" "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the faith. Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Progress! back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. air and his eyes still cast down. prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day childhood." is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. "Nineteen years!" present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. This began the loss of the battle. Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his stone, with balustrade with a double curve. As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a "And he is coming?" they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground moment, ladies." A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid who are old women now. A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." "Why?" No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus far as he was concerned. which Éponine was entirely concealed. and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the And again he broke into a laugh. on the horizon. An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his he had no dinner. and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of A minute more, and they were both in the fire. "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." this woman Fantine." in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? a judge. Marius had not even seen him. call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a hands seeking their guns became audible. "All right," said he. The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified return. Drive it out better. discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of mayor was there; what had she to fear? of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from The Bishop resumed mildly:-- the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, "We haven't the time." did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm which he could make his escape. This was the Rue Mondétour, which on The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim It was heroism become monstrous. Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. within him, and of all that was working there? That is something first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" To dare; that is the price of progress. coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." "No, sir." beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I to entrance into the void? must give air to the English army." calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" "In my house? no," said he. front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous none the less, a vision. the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is not the wit to present me with a child like that!" "You know that we are about to die." touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always tyrant." perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. insurgents. which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is uniform." CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them lightning. Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty him:-- abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur space of fifteen years. The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. Cosette's silence. time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of began to tug at her skirt. Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. muttered: boots, you five-louis jade." While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to table. "What, really? You are sure?" The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; He remained silent for a moment, and then added: Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; Bookshelf boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue the same to have the cross!" cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep significant metaphors:-- "I do." attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, of Paradise. "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this "And to hold your peace about everything!" swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. "See! there is just room." He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. to you." "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a Pratiquez la vertu, work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be This rope fell at their feet. should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as pavement. to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right "What is it, sir?" be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It chin. whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. A year passed; then another. do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous Jean Valjean listened. An officer intervened. the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had axe. just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, the candle which was burning there. repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to he had inwardly addressed to himself. poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light We will be explicit. succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few The policemen and agents recoiled. undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle extending it towards Marius: not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be To-morrow, and that is to die. "Bitch!" nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to "Will that be all?" took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very better off with him than with me." not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; immediately." proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an "'They are more fatigued than I.' you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings have I done?" feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. accosted him. and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP "What?" which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless mingled with prayer. they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the Title: Les Misérables showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered "Then why did you come?" And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be "Then speak." school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he The barricade applauded. them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom Fauchelevent went on:-- of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his "Then it attacks children?" Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was representative of the people!" palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of He is alone. His name is God. Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still "Alone?" the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all beheld, but it was grand. All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring-