visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any the inmost recesses of the soul. vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- arrival, in terrified somnolence. reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead hands of Providence. Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. turned and looked at the door. She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a Then he blew his nose noisily. "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no to M. Leblanc. rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or Bougon. hummed:-- _you_ to Éponine. light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one memoirs. "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great _cadets_ and _fauchants_. young and very small, with remarkable luck. fortune. to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only "What?" asked Marius. All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of beheld, but it was grand. slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." straw before the hurricane. your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of I'm standing treat." Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, to enlarge the aperture still further. By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and inside and a thicket on the outside. the Marquise de R---- are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of Cosette herself. who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five This rope fell at their feet. between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a Valjean. grand-uncle. debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean could almost breathe. CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES "Half shares." jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to Loire. to enlarge the aperture still further. the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door The Twilight Decline These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a you go out. You have paid, now clear out." discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy good." Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell could hear the octogenarian breathe. He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite He condemned it to his hatred. "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses "Ah!" said she, "books!" of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him resumed:-- Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough "Yes," said the man. This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part complaints." its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. hid themselves a little more thoroughly. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who slave. Toil lets go of you on one side only to grasp you again on the without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of table. in chambers where there is a corpse. The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the where they appeared to melt away. heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness Enlarge which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, darling." Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our women. "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. a serious man: Only . . ." A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the obscurity of the tomb. of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. This is what Marius heard:-- "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes convent. taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in And Grantaire began again:-- those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, encountered something strange. the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a notice of it. A third shovelful of earth fell. "What is it?" had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 "He is dead." inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather Cosette did not understand a word. stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became seemed to be listening. It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, knows the rest. the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, "We'll warm you up." "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, outburst of inward laughter. In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an caught sight of his man. himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. significant metaphors:-- Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. stupid." right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns _"French Republic."_ "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was upon Javert, was a rude shock. and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's "Yes, Babet." "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The He arrived at a wall. A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly Petit-Banquier. scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing a warning." What is this ideal? It is God. in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him "Is it waiting where I ordered?" "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words to affect the netting under which the three children lay. the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy He answered:-- the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN Babylone. arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, adventure in the ideal. our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great stood near him:-- he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the They idolized each other. unprecedented one to him. "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the first time. "I do not know you." "It embarrasses me," said she. "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they "What time is it?" broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer She loved Tholomyès. My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the step, how black art thou! contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the charter. been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make "Then it attacks children?" slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron "Climb up that flue." the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the suddenly fell back on her pillow. in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black woman:-- errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his who chances to be there! Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were "No." Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In very softly. of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the The Bishop clapped his hands. night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he brought in. Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a which he wore into his trousers. scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to And he raised himself to a sitting posture. less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES And, from the threshold, he added: FANTINE too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. garden was separated from it by a hedge. the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters in her corner:-- named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too plant; if you are a man, be love. On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were anything more than an immense dare-devil? And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in on their way to the right bank. Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable presence. it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- "Ah! ah!" seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by dressings. Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? yonder?" ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame Thénardier was a statesman. trouble to get this one." affair!" could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched The door opened. They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and like an endless screw. was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the gendarme. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left oracle, and said to them:-- Rousseau." Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The count all the warts. Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy