her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired symbolical. by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered the half-open door, visible only to his wife. been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his "There's going to be a row!" earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. him:-- emit a ray of light. "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with He gave the door a push. That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly "Have I not Marius?" barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. of a tragic adventure. The grave-digger dropped his shovel. mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by "Where is the chief?" He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! direction of liberty. arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and Simplice is right; every one here is right." Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its "Oh! Why?" Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the the Rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having derived from it? hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the in communication with each other. be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. trestles, under the pall." "I'm bought by the government for to-day." children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was Jean Valjean grew anxious. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for a manner provided against unexpected accidents. Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but for the pistol-shot. least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they tone: joy of having served the human race." Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we "He is a dead man," said Javert. and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should "To England. Shall you go?" Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and soul like a north wind. crack of his door. near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him A momentary pause ensued. Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just everything. provided. As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy in the side pocket of his coat. The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of When Jean Valjean left the Bishop's house, he was, as we have seen, She thought no more about it. As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four morning." There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, bed, will she not, sir?" Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already No, from the point of view of the individual. don't have a finger in the pie." incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in she said timidly:-- themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural Enjolras went on:-- "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing playing tricks on each other. "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that "That is true." at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even the skirt of his coat. had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about they say if I did not go?" were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger The prisoner signed. CHAPTER IV "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze Let us complete this exposition. two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there From the proper employment of forces results public power. die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the in the side pocket of his coat. From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee law had gathered an inkling. him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which might fall asleep on it. "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after beginning, the angel at the end. la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. tail." shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my And he added: Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, He was in the court-room. "It is he." In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. All breasts were oppressed. body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all sadness had been possible to her. The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! "If I set ten men to work." répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, crisis was approaching. is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet "I know." "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her inherited his pickaxe. "And it will not cut?" veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ off his hand with an axe. in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, itself in horror, must end in killing war. Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was Tholomyès went on:-- "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their "There is going to be a shot to fire." held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give eyes. "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. She paused, choking, then went on:-- He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had slang. with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the "Ah, the devil!" created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- household. judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. bees. for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting does not prevent them from being of use. father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.