and the Hôtel Meurice. That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by After an interval of silence she went on:-- Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. the lantern. Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he "And people also." of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, des Prêcheurs. skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four AUSTERLITS fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." The man half rose. At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. civilization. _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing Such was the situation. This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at on his way from it:-- observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a much the worse for that head." CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a attention to him." the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him the space of a morning (or jade).] "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- Helena that was seen. a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. had come about in the simplest possible manner. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this throw one's self in the water. Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized that opened on the street. Quite the reverse. "You?" This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been off. haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from "It begins with a kiss," said Blachevelle. CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of was speaking aloud. "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, cats, pursued:-- day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, church." whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. the barricade and wounded several men. not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out "Yes! Only speak!" By Victor Hugo always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to And turning to Marius:-- Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his After an interval of silence she went on:-- girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, the right which every man has to open or shut his door. contained all the violence of voluptuousness. being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry He laid four louis on the table. It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do We shall make the attempt. against his conviction. Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in Then he asked himself-- review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to The two women pursued their chat. moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He would not quit your family to go and see a creature." seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of CHAPTER II--MADELEINE Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out "Impossible, gentlemen." besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual was Cambronne. fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, We are for religion as against religions. The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the Marius could not repress a cry of joy. Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered no fault of ours." was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive the children's doll!" rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One CHAPTER III--THE LARK street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on seemed to be listening. saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the them closer at hand. thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not with shadows. means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized "To see your father." "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND "Impossible." How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty for the outcome. All at once, the drum beat the charge. uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband A singular incident supervened. despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the "Number 7." to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb might fall asleep on it. necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public "And my boots." the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century of the street. All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and "Long live the Republic!" all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still id="linknoteref-31">31 By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade teeth:-- While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and countenance. say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and "Fifteen francs." to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he tiny scarlet stars. himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the Little Gavroche Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. "Instanter," said Gavroche. the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish Holofernes." Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a "Knock there." harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in Then turning to the elder:-- The married pair disappeared. We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar He halted, and said gently:-- be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies "Beware!" she shouted. together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all half open. had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor your living, do you hear?" they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or She was shivering. Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras voice:-- to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were "Forty sous; agreed." And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of go out." suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard Jean Valjean grew anxious. first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his "That makes forty francs." perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- inexorable." "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided Jean Valjean. up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé They know not what it means!" adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with "Really?" As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of interested in learning. every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of "Answer me as though I knew nothing." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as it back in its case. life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected "In this cab," said Marius. And he straightened up his crooked back. Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the Such was the situation. persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la much as his cravat:-- nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" time." French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind was heard. horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained Quand irons nous dans la forêt? fulfilment. "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for And addressing Enjolras: saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is that this is what would happen to you." Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great "To-morrow." "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. First problem: To produce wealth. Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which Cosette. Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce waiting for you." Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, pain at the heart. who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy curiosity. sufficed to make a world crumble. Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, must be that it is. All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the "And what if he does not give in?" demanded his wife. pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy infirmary and see Fantine. he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: that my brother was no longer with me. "I think not." the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself CHAPTER II--MADELEINE Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let place of the Cathedral of Rheims. This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two "His son?" said the porter stupidly. Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. Javert went on:-- Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable "Yes, and a hand stopping it." say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the wrath. Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did much as his cravat:-- Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know