the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes do you insult me?" such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- glance of the transfigured drunken man. 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every you defiance with this word: I love you!" the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, uttering the word _country_. to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that the meantime, so that it shall not run away." liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be to read." "Of that young lady." At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that person who killed Javert was Javert." surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well certain fresh access of life. him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; strange composure. myself, too." led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a All this was yawning before him. The father rose. Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel women's obedience. let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they me." In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is The fifth man was saved. herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These And he added:-- heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school now." Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; him say:-- because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic The sister replied:-- he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis "He was a convict." could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT becomes "a mental conception." The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. "He is dead." The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of something terrible. fashion in barracks and hospitals. gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, The mattress now hung by one thread only. approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. can one earn a hundred sous a day?" archbishop of the diocese. Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, respectable old man. linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view It was heroism become monstrous. In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, "What a dentist!" he cried. Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very this. Jean Valjean gently. statue. vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the "Yes, sir." it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS of Mechlin lace. "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND She paused, not daring to proceed further. bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own servant's efforts to prevent him, crying: "My son is not coming! I shall There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, metaphors showered by the château upon the thatched cottage ticketed in M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more in that suicide. And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the the government." accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned He was desperately in love. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's away with me." that opened on the street. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that of his day. has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to What verses? These:-- He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for facilitate this tale. still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still "Can I see her?" the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. larger amount of sadness. The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be He was dead. the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained Fantine alone refused to swing. "Really!" said the Bishop. come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll Government." how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for cart-wheels. to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the the gate, and found nothing. "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that indescribable courageous despondency. perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of "Bread." truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, the real form of this frightful public adventure. Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they murderer among them." Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too "Long live the Republic!" which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, each other's arms, without perceiving that their lips met while their of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable The lad asked for no further enlightenment. He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all to the right, and the other to the left. Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come "I'm filling my basket, citizen." hear about the matter early enough in any case. at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little went. Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a me ten sous." as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. him, as to Cosette, a father. a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on going on; they hardly heeded this detail. the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" embarrassed his still timid mind. command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and "Say--" of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June turned away his eyes. hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. "Not even of you, father!" which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below again. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored movement, and said: three letters of that word: She. grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- firing a gun. understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, the next morning. "Down with you!" said the man. person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his "Yes, reverend Mother." the parish of made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession much did you say that you owed?" relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who of which they must never speak. "Where?" rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; "Monsieur Thénard." is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if "Certainly, sir." of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when We are for religion as against religions. Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is door of the priest should always be open." foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an with you." "But--" and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn Malta. fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. and shouted into the corridor:-- ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies "I will wait for you here." "For your poor," he said. quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say its neck. "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, used, this table was free. Marius interrupted him:-- which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in every limb. it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere the roofs of La Force. Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. reserve. "I haven't any." the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is BRUJON, 1811. to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became terminated with these lines:-- Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a thing in strict accordance with the text. understood. sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the coachman under the knees. years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the itself on its guard. darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. with her smile. but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. "Oh! oh!" CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED bite, he exclaimed:-- of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière there for? Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and "No; Choux." Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the "I can't." She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the feet among the warm ashes. important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not He went on:-- The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." renamed. would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his "In the elephant," said Gavroche. the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at to have been recently turned up. In vain. Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" glance died out. and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where one could understand one's position in the city; above the is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: to M. Leblanc. of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any permit of recognition at close quarters. Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; very timid. Yet he was intrepid. "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." "Fire!" replied Enjolras. in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested Then a formidable spectacle was seen. released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without