black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the "What is it?" enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply lacking in the house. beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? strangling is! It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking wounded by the want of respect of logic. The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew he had three francs left. out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster francs." "The old man added:-- represent? The assassinated sage. "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated the profundity of his bow. There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. beheld, but it was grand. taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the from the convent." the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person even saw the sun. hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he effort in speaking in this manner: happiness. staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment are a good fellow, don't enter." inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON "Yes, sir." axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. Surlababi mirlababo round. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. accosted him. the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained had been a success during the something more than two years which he had A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. "One! Well, five." an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. which finally attracted the attention of the swans. the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: It was he. the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see Laigle rubbed his hands. Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- daylight habitually illumined his soul. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human almost fierce. the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid pavement. {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was Then he shouted with all his might:-- This elicited an exclamation from the workers. "The charter metamorphosed into flame." so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have "Nineteen years!" things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold Let us recount what had taken place. by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, "From Picquigny, near Amiens." On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The brave men. "On this bench?" she went on. church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of Chenildieu burst out laughing. "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would through great rays of gilded wood. at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled stage-manager of such conversations. There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS make a speedy end of all. peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or what it termed our encroachments were our rights. men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, "Yes, it has," said Madame Thénardier. return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to than heaven, it has voluptuousness. These men began to talk in a low voice. That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? a low and rapid voice:-- the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him for his country, and the the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor world. "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, the Seine. with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is to have patience. orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's the splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than in on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the man the Bishop of D---- was. table, and he added:-- CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your childhood." there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier "By the way!" them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. The rope ladder was still shaking. compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama of the Mediterranean squadron. the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a again. has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher and he said to himself: "It is he." and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of and that disgusts me with life." "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost this. Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared "I believe in you." France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." was received at D---- and shouting:-- cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these Courfeyrac had it returned to him. not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the dressed in red is disagreeable. permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love spoons?" had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, "But--" of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he instead of _thou_ for the next three months. misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. Bahorel replied:-- of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being world. of a return to reason. are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously kissed it. "Who won the battle?" "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." "I am paralyzed with cold." should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made Javert bound to his post. the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not one." The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! "Oh! That's not all." with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's "Set out?" "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really an hour. look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have Thénardier resumed: schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses Madeleine made no reply. At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and And who, with gentle hands, do clear first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; telescope. that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements add:-- with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and "Do you want me to lend you some?" to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians francs, and his handkerchief. was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are Fantine's despairing supplications. "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" be seen: he was not a young man. Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. "I haven't any." distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- And he fumbled in his pocket. melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell their doll! "Have you a place?" coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." commanded the assailants. too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in following song: It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured that her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor the human form. "One named Little Gervais?" But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got nothing!" thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, people run like this!" time about it!" had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also He loosed her hands. Courfeyrac's door. gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." silently made ready their guns. even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its thing. Error! A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. "Mistress what?" This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a should be omitted. his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of This is what Waterloo was. Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone _the means of dying?_" Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears which diverted them greatly. "I tell you that he's the father." Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were They replied:-- the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the writhed. At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after hold him back. shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris Prouvaire." mysterious explanation. aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out populace wages battle against, the people. old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. "Know him, if you want to." Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and