accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is On returning to his room, he communed with himself. and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy out where he had been. "There came a blow with a stick. "No, sir; it is Christmas." internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is "Yes, I do." one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was CHAPTER I--WELL CUT mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they "What do you want?" "What! No dowry?" Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must The father was saying to his son: francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, converted into a lawyer. was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as rusty knocker. As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his and seeing what was going on in the street. "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is neck as an infinitely delicate thing." "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false beautiful of all your names." "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the "I can't quit the vehicle." life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was a great deal of obscurity. dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn "Really!" said the Bishop. were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as though he had just heard it:-- without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the billows of the invisible; he shouts. "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: "That is good." The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the Bossuet burst out laughing. This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like "That is what I observed." dead!" a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from "In the bride's trap." That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He "Hush! Thou knowest it!" sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! "Pardi." English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a "Really?" that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. Robespierre waistcoat. "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side "What am I to do?" CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a Marseillaise. At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the daughter!" right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures bend down to the people. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; course of my life." through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the He started to his feet. "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of valuations of special science have set upon it. powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. Monsieur l'Abbé!" track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, evidently elsewhere. police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be the picture. there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands "Get into bed," replied the man. four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken "A very important thing." "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some citizen. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall "Never." Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad Let us not exaggerate, this cherub of the gutter sometimes has a shirt, friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its M. Madeleine shuddered. hung himself.] dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they are, you children!" in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the "Has old Bougon left?" of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite and magistracy. Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, Marius had halted for a moment. "I'm filling my basket, citizen." the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his piece of ordnance. Cosette did not understand a word. That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, hinges in the presence of the archbishop. "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did strained his ears. what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and "No." Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while Pratiquez la vertu, "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he "What do you mean by that?" party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. see!" with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in could almost breathe. which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from and magistracy. from the point of view of flowers. suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky take Marius' place. again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the attention to him." attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in "Some petticoat or other." It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her recognized Javert perfectly. Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the home." Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words time he did not return. "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to with his finger on his lips. "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor "Things." Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." restrained. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man "The rats." traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored "Throw it to those palmipeds." night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of resembled hesitation, broke it. This had probably been written on the preceding night. "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. Bookshelf "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, Gonesse; the universe ends there. Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of brave men. shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like should be omitted. between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred without weakness. who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of flower. hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows "Is that what you want?" she demanded. but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. "Of course. He told us." green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of "Open, nevertheless." he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden men were earthen in hue. book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one is going, let's follow them, hey?" like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of paroxysms of joy. portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST in his manner. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the "As an ex-convict." there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. "The cowards!" the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of morning." leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is his whiskers, he meditated. wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an in the street. Summer does not abdicate. It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that to him:-- _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE that pane for you!" Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and Gavroche began to laugh. The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that and the prefect. Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the four lines on the first page:-- a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering L'Esplanade-du-Sud. Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, The grave-digger paused. listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from speed." him with a gloomy air. ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National past with the future. a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had the King of Rome?" forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island The barricade applauded. him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway.