calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the quarrel!" one. himself to it," etc., etc. stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL "How is that poor woman?" That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that "What else remains?" The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. entered the Rue Saint-Louis. other." flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed "Never!" in broad daylight. march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting planets fill the infinite universe. end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was hospital, it was not known where or when. see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to there were no longer any lanterns. wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. francs in gold, in a sealed box. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, breath. glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open large. public letter-writer. prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this "What! so that you may be avoided?" The brat had passed through the crack. abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want women, while Fantine was a good girl. long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no "Cosette!" that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED get you again!" Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered Then he turned to Jean Valjean. For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the "Do you love me?" said she. right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, of M. Leblanc. On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to He murmured: soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- "What?" "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia war. you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and wretch" seemed difficult to her. There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him Cromwell. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good "What is the secret?" bulky parcel on the table. The sister replied:-- was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is which crawls on the bottom. had they not been dazzled by it. eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like _the means of dying?_" that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God from the books and manuscripts on his table. that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing "How agreed?" CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs was attributed to the coachman. "That is good." remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders this quest. from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her at the moment. he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most they had contained but one soul. stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey "They may," said Marguerite. He inquired of this usher:-- did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean now it reappeared. alas! to go out. He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you He raised his glance to the crucifix. through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies Luxembourg. that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: she asked him:-- approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he guilty of the fault of going straight. latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. Gavroche began to laugh. which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have had, so to speak, two wings of iron. "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be the language of wretchedness. the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered "You are in no better case than I am." facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the said: "Old women are never lacking." encumbered with wounded. words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of "What's that?" tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again happened? By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were Right of revision. Dufond. Four. prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; gold." appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, remained standing, contemplating what he saw. The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A "Monsieur Dorimon." garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain "Retire!" facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he ended. uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, about him: shook a counterpane out of your window?" fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey are the arm-chairs?" of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the certain that the young girl did look at him. reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible her payments. Some months she was in arrears. to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. "And people also." casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the people have you at the present moment?" and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid Marius. murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not "What cabriolet?" "By messieurs the wagoners." He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was Carmagnolet. stood near him:-- he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of M. Leblanc let them take their own course. be understood. teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the "Stay with us," said Laigle. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your "Two good ones." conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR laid him low on the pavement. resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking "Well, sell it to me, then." At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred "She is a caterpillar." life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. hand, which made one start. of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by And he began to laugh. lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: "And can you get a lever?" There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent "Of what?" said Marius. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the in the cellar. She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could "Come in," said the Bishop. in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to "At the Madelonettes." torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had flowers before man cut stones. took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and "Welcome, citizen." They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about morning." Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the he had beneath his eyes. did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with that makes you cough." Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister thought no more about it. Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that to chambers of torture filled the hovel. quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- to you." her heart, which leaned to one side only. and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to "And who ate the cat?" the great annoyance of the sick person. "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was was nothing to her. modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. represented progress. "You have been a soldier?" difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the This is what Waterloo was. melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by Marius made no reply. with the thousand. sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant "Who was it that was eaten?" for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now of Saint-Marceau. At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at them:-- Adoration. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER single being even to God, that is love. la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar "To England. Shall you go?" Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the "I have found out." "Why?" One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was person who killed Javert was Javert." were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery Jean Valjean remained silent. blanket, and the little one murmured:-- conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over "Cut it off." Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that each other for support. rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let "Certainly." CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a She murmured:-- "Yes." brave men. exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an