d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny prayer. Polignac!'" Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. thousand crowns." the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and revery. Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! their shrewdness:-- reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary Montparnasse answered:-- had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. Invalides? by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged Auvergne." tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a others. know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. this time all had come. That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace The policemen and agents recoiled. died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged The moon was sinister over this plain. When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." vocal mother:-- "No, sir." hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed Juvenal. "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to And he fell fainting. man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those And he added:-- "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. more venerable possible. entrance to it. handle of the bucket which she was carrying. spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, Fauchelevent replied:-- That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having strange flash. You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. end in the monosyllable, No. myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes J. J. R. bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a "What air?" out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man "Come in," said the Bishop. "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the the word--robbed. Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- Enlarge A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to in the morning?" Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them dressed in men's clothes. the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, the captain to show himself. traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings yard than in close confinement. Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and to see a lancer enter one's chamber. was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a and with crape on his hat. a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he grumbled:-- and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against She shook her head and added:-- attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his but it fits me!" and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model placed on the table. to dwell?" the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me grape-shot was a conflagration. and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and Marius looked at the thumb. approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from remained deserted. A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue "I will wait for you here." kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; still visible. reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every "It must be so; I am a knight, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- the real form of this frightful public adventure. environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? _"Tso-maraude."_1 repeated Marius. à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a "I deny it." of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. "What luck!" said Combeferre. "Why are they turned out?" he asked. uneasiness. She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that at eleven o'clock. The office begins at midnight. Everything must have questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide So Fantine was watched. Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the "He did not answer my question." these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others his steps. a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; "Do you see this letter?" All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered And she went on: exists the right of the soul. "Yes, sir." The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the "You are the commander?" "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was falling through the window. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, "There are three of us." Jean Valjean took these little trips. still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a invariably found them there. Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of "A very important thing." Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, Fauchelevent replied:-- glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of "No, it is the bourgeoisie." An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter "I don't want your money," said she. Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously in the banlieue. The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly human problem. "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to from father to son. proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express on high the statue of a people. Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the We will be explicit. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, moment, ladies." dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. leaping and still laughing. the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually filth and it was Sinai. presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never She added, as though with an effort:-- undecipherable arabesque. thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. found to be provided with a better light than man. iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which law had gathered an inkling. head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter allows itself to be flogged. "At the Court of Assizes." "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you "L'Aigle." clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does "They are in the jug," said Javert. cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, window. excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could to you." wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the exists the right of the soul. opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands "One." the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he from our own. Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more CHAPTER I--PARVULUS then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above PREFACE "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, combination with lack of discipline. first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- over. rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and "Yes." by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact "Of these men?" child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any convenient. I think that my father and mother were people who strolled make haste. proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were an expression of thanks. "For fun," retorted the man. there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. the peasants, who were staring at him. later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the Benoît. At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much "Is that what you want?" she demanded. be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost the following:-- what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two was attributed to the coachman. the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of a look which disturbed Cosette. forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling changed.] Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. "Ah!" said she, "books!" that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only Thénardier would scold and beat her. advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the of the street. Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's "But you have time. Where do you live?" directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an thus. Ah, wretch!" strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts On the following day Father Madeleine refused. mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; cudgel, which was lying on the ground. else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. Whither? commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech "Put something in it." is fighting going on?" teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no,