ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in against it. of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their "Utterly naked! What's the father?" at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of Tholomyès paused. was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon existence." don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't the four lines which follow:-- "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had "So do we." little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each "We must!" shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him is a proverb: There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. it. drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at building Number 50-52. into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly only for me. That said, he crossed me off." "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls "A pot-house! Never." nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. "Cosette!" advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune million for the town and its poor. form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the Martin Verga. set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the beside him. gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its And Cosette began again: of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which very earth. your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely CHAPTER VI--WAITING before him. It was inauspicious. Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, this time all had come. Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, maintained, on the sides of the boulevard, these two interminable orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There traveller. were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in "And people also." picked up his axe again. had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. without. If he has no doctor he will die." gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is "We owe three quarters rent." "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of empty space around him. A cry arose: and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He applicable to Waterloo. "Father, are you satisfied?" But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I glance, blushed to her very hair. remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind in the cellar. perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. This information given, Gavroche added: you go out. You have paid, now clear out." astonishment. interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which Gavroche replied: all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. are a good fellow, don't enter." that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I Simplice remained alone with them. Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In consisted of:-- pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even humble. And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the without. If he has no doctor he will die." avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. Some new thing had come into his soul. necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on the rose? position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline rat_ in his hand. Marius' timid and reserved nature. Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." "I am dying," said she. the song by killing the singer. we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means change; in the other lay six napoleons. The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was approach us with offers to donate. This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings And, after a pause, he added: chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. "She is a spider, Monseigneur." deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He The Black Hunt "I." first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, "Then his identity was established?" Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. did not make her appearance until evening. neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the band of zinc. suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure mother?--" never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, "You know that a mother died this morning?" "I have nothing," said the landlord. red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as VOLUME II.--COSETTE "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire the galleys like?" They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are presence of all humanity. mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died They did not hear him. interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY She tried to smile once more and expired. Gavroche replied:-- women. He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a of enthusiasm. bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny de Babylone; Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice precaution as though he had stolen it. Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared "For the wine." the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in instant later he had fallen asleep. Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether The waiter replied:-- Who denies that? Of course it does. month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so repulsive in this light. revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made him:-- curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a man like that, who had the air of a girl!" CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't proceeded from it. thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. "But--" feel how hot my hands are!" bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against with her smile. He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the questioned, Montparnasse replied. between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" the bottom of an abyss. In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of yesterday. sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been strikes. idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were characters, with a pencil:-- to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an "Why did you not bring it at once?" That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted "Of what?" said Marius. and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent "Why?" Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this citizen. in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in As she swept up she remarked to him:-- The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are "Certainly not." years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in called him Bossuet. one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted sentiments. of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were in which she was still pretty. Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the It was heroism become monstrous. charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The had recurred to him. Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been further. shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. your living, do you hear?" darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of "Then I understand the girl is rich?" infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to gratitude. He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary "One." imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- had lodged a child there. "His name is Jean Valjean." antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She earth, nor the wet grass; they looked at each other, and their hearts is smaller; that is all. inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed spoons?" head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. And after a pause he added:-- paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor some person who is dear to him. People die of that." All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet "It's my move." it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at the coat . . ." "The father turkey-cocks so grave And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which to don his uniform. man's part to wish that love should lead to something. mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might depths!] delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing at eleven o'clock. The office begins at midnight. Everything must have the wall is much in use in Paris. All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the people call Monseigneur Welcome?" psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance At that moment, nine o'clock struck. a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the lost." sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary reason for being unjust towards God." "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and And then he fell to weeping bitterly.