not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary each other there. I want to know it." contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in Marius was quite upset. he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with But she did not seem to hear him. one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply "Why not?" this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which her teeth:-- was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. himself to drop into his chair. was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must back of one hand. He believed very little in God. ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. characterized this insurrection. a quittance from the past. die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the obliged to open the window: he dared not. ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was "Embrace me." slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should church." The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. pavement of the street. powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained reason for being unjust towards God." to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. "His son?" said the porter stupidly. The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground "At Saint-Lazare." espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have "I am very cold," she replied. each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, begin with indifference? He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a Gavroche. is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. about the chief justice. to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S with his finger on his lips. it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute representative of the people!" Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these The landlady of the hotel entered. Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's "Is Boulatruelle dead?" landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, "Well!" harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of larger with the proud light within them. 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar "You do not belong in these parts?" haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a "But who the deuce is he following?" tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was am!" not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. and sacrificing no one but himself. away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the sky." wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' in that suicide. "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! letter. tail." which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains period? and limpid, and offers no obscurity. lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should pebble. coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage the strength to hold it. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or How odd you are!" made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- She did not open her eyes. God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star Saint-Antoine. having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles thousand years ago, "March on!" touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the They were bottles of aquafortis. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as Quand irons nous dans la forêt? sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices rest. intestine? The sewer. that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated Whom shall he reproach? also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with said in a harsh voice:-- of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In a millionnaire!" winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me crossed a "Where are you going?" This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think motionless. "That's true," said Bossuet. sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he in the street. There's not a woman round." the vehicle. speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which water froth and humanity boil. Hence arise troubles; but after these Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; All retired towards the door. other. "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, Mirliton ribonribette All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The don't have a finger in the pie." "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they resumed:-- following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- "What is it?" uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, The stranger resumed with a smile: here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders mystery, woman. Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that further advanced than before. which I mentioned at the Court of Assizes," and he arranged this piece would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The broken. His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the done nothing whatever. was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. that for?" neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright street. He entered it. ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star in the morning?" in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty "Certainly." royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end "Come in now!" had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by "What child?" the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following facing them in front. "Set out." wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen obscurity. _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm wood, iron and cords. Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the l'Homme Armé. the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not wholly a Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. There was but one thing to be done. porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch need to ask permission." diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was thread.' So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to feet among the warm ashes. rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man "What?" eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad "We are saving our powder." taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice Waterloo Museum. in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had Such was this curious house. Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this All wheeled round. It was Javert. crowd about it. him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. _Rousseau the Aquatic_. visit http://pglaf.org glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their knocking." Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One "It must be, said a warrior." and that disgusts me with life." ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the noise, which was sweet yet sad. simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing question. Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, old man's. and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" proposed to fleece royally the following morning. "Jean Valjean." At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, "Who?" demanded her father. the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there "Neither do I." cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any And to the ventriloquist:-- "Excellent." the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded is going, let's follow them, hey?" "I am mortified, sir--" Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, He added between his teeth:-- binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much familiar. come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. shot." the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up "Come along with me, young 'uns!" glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. presence. "Certainly there is," said the old woman. something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the same spirit. Love, soar. the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful think. I can do what I please about it." called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would his brow on the preceding evening. Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. young and very small, with remarkable luck. Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and people in it." have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social "To the fair and tender Imogene--" CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. countenance. roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" "Yes, there is!" However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer may not fall into sin on our account." that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is tolerable fluency:-- to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. details. He went on:-- "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing the hall was sparely lighted. Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over id="linknoteref-31">31