one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. inexorable dignity: debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. became Quenisset. held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which depths!] This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine "Why not?" "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused man like that, who had the air of a girl!" and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence She murmured:-- as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the task of isolating the elephant. taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul "Finished!" that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce "Then speak quick." extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, Bombarda's windows. her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, She went on:-- He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be not see the person. Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full is something. Nothing is nothing. with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in replaced her. Why?" useful." To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 "Put this in the fire." nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. "What is the meaning of this?" through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there Candlesticks Into the Fire "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my There was nothing in this wooden shoe. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the out where he had been. a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, "Do you love me?" but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." brims, which were called _bolivars_. great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in limb. young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of her journey, and had reached M. sur M. The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She empty coffin. ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street ventriloquist. of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who dishes." material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in him: Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in Jean Valjean continued to smile. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind hovel, but there was still tobacco. barber's shop. CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" a warning." This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; "And the sister at the post?" residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the by the fire. seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, "Well?" ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. to attach it. traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her to death, made his escape twenty years ago. "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." He continued to advance. woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this AUSTIN CASTILLEJO living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From "It was Madame Thénardier." Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the capable of exclamation:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL Yes. impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, "That man was terrible." with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic "What's this?" she exclaimed. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was "I know it." Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time the IRS. "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he "And it will not cut?" larger amount of sadness. lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the Prêcheurs. Let us fight. "No." Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation "A request." in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was of his comrades. some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand safety. order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to new-comers are treated. I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of guards who crowned the barricade. to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of "At your feet," said the voice. Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down "What little girls?" undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but Marius left the house. "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any "What is your name?" will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see "And when do you start?" "No." At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in had lost it. profession." third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the "Give it to me." and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his should, to-day, wound the side of his country. and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by "Fauchelevent." person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is her." "Well?" hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not Cosette shuddered. He added:-- bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the Marius' silence answered for him. the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist "We'll warm you up." A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." bestiality. One thinks one hears hydras talking. isn't a sou." As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the "I know what you want." one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my old blackguard, you child-stealer!" Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous wings could be felt. chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the But at that moment Fantine was joyous. Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who gleams. He said to the lad:-- "Ponine and Zelma." her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does and was spying on his proceedings. from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol pole surmounted by a red cap. poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to to others may not be received in law . . ." on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers Then she departed. in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion soldier, out of the question. that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to "So you have no mother." This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before "I know it." CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; representative of the people!" Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing "I answer for that." CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities impressions. CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was "In the first place--" with the infinity on high, is called praying. Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the latter had escaped. other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of wretch, by that innocent being. good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, "What is the rope for?" how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is Montfermeil?" sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre had been executed. am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices "Father Fauvent?" he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister question in the book, and she would answer it. whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- Thénardier stepped nearer. bewilderment inspired by the place. These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special The sun had set. He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, consent. We will drink. After work, never before." every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks "Answer me!" cried Fantine. Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did as lift a cart like that on his back." the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will outstretched arms. clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, "'With my road marked out for me.' means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked not slept either. BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP that institution was like. voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something horror. the birds are exhausted. stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE events which had taken place at M. sur M. When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is