gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their "The eldest." saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him this morning." courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, takes off his hat. She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, seen the two delinquents. thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could Nuncio lived. "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" "How does one get it?" "It's your turn." FANTINE." beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." Father Gillenormand, to himself. manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to was that much clean, at all events. All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: itself which creates them. He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by Courfeyrac was bare-headed. the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the hour." "It must be closed again." everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. with Cosette's handwriting. Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was peremptory fashion. front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with "It is not that." chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean interesting." to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. open door."_ two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, she is one," replied the other. "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the resounded through the barricade. terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: He continued:-- herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The PATER NOSTER nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each police, then?" convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated "You are going to get out of here." Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had his muddy boots to the brazier. even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing and came back with the remark:-- "Oh! oh!" become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume The conflict on the plateau continued. "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them "How much is it?" CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door husband she lodged and fed her young brother. handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She taciturnity was of the beaming order. them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between into it. behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down Ça Ira. The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps The only social peril is darkness. anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on "Me! me! me!" asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which advance. creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed "I really beg you a thousand pardons." Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and Jean Valjean continued to smile. with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in of lion-lamb who had been his father. been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes "And when the vault is open?" Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of receive me." Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, increasing. drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair "You wished to be Madame. You are so." might fall asleep on it. cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was this. 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer "There are lone women," said Guelemer. charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that heard in all quarters of the town:-- longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, square. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin dignified. both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, me." about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" set out on your journey to-morrow." In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. "Are you a good Christian?" The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the "Gamin!" said Enjolras. traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments "Me!" said Jean Valjean. these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption "I adore you!" of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked "What street?" of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the what I am about to dictate to you." the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change resumed:-- That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the them: word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the stood near him:-- herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast "There are lone women," said Guelemer. gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but Let us explain who this M. Marius was. spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot CHAPTER II--MADELEINE They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'