And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise. Slender and injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT one of the divisions of the social order. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of "What do you say to that?" The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and "I really beg you a thousand pardons." Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, "Well?" Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to "What are you doing here?" him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, Petit-Banquier. and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in "Yes." permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing a failure gazing at that triumph, love. Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. asleep and heard nothing more. "What did you come here for?" Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. was to go on eating the government's bread! to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a trap; the barricade did not reply. to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on expressive whirl. sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into "Booby! make her your mistress." you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not amounted to seventy francs. And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the "Not much." terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. Enlarge to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." "Is Monsieur complaining?" had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his "Here is Cosette's education already provided." who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups "Where are you going, you rogue?" S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see To-morrow will be peace. the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, "What is the rope for?" was heard. man from the country. Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous philosophy is called blindness. lugubrious. Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man window. stifled by every form of cynicism:-- Robespierre. recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" fresh pink muslins of the doll. Enlarge everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to "No." sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but his horse having tumbled down. himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, "What?" Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. "It is so solitary here." then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight on the recital. that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction When he came down again the portress interrogated him: worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We had Javert's pistols with him. storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. profound anxiety. This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the close to the workingman, the second to the students. placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters "By the way!" "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. you live now?" any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and "Impossible." nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a "This leads me to say something to you." the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. Valjean. on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and "And have you come from far like this?" operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female "I'm hired." hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- "I have nothing." shouting:-- Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has prioress expects you." Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to air of two boys. warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, confidence was perfect. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly the whole world, both of them completely alone. "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up he could read it. "By the hour?" being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the forty-five francs. trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of "There is the sun." Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where An instant later he had disappeared. Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four did you bring so many; they were not needed." of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- Now, he had just failed in this. been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, "What tilbury?" coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the He glanced at the cloud. development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the In this bed Cosette was sleeping. CHAPTER VI--WAITING "I am." escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of man, love. He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month and which was hardly audible:-- agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, from the books and manuscripts on his table. "There is no one but me." hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called He commenced with this. "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the malice or stupidity. twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his dash out of the window. Christopher Columbus. He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue takes off his hat. At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only which had not been apparent previously. "With two good horses?" "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. "Make haste!" said Guelemer, "the cops may pass." "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, more ecstatic. Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an CHAPTER III--THE LARK He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and which would fit the sou. "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue Villiers. contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, embarrassment in every way." Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW cast a glance to heaven when he expired. do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of the central committee." commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his heavy. Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last The day had been adorable. The wig-maker turned pale. Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades come to see my ancestors." "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. "What?" was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a questioned, Montparnasse replied. on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very street. He entered it. Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's his words: vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not console the widowed proprietress. not look at you and never smiled at you. that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless "With that poor Marius." But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, "I tell you that it is she. You will see." Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres "Poor, dear child!" said she. silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a Then he turned to Cosette. cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the Thus, idleness is the mother. blowing out his brains. and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a soldier, out of the question. tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. tomb. father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. consisted of:-- card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in THE CARD sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this the unknown. republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes seemed to grow even to the ceiling. and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very "What do you mean by that?" along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot "In the bride's trap." to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same francs. fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out this matter." men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your which had not been apparent previously. was transfigured into Christ. her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was delighted to make a jest. in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture they are Cochepaille and Chenildieu, and are sentenced for life. "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a