enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, This elicited an exclamation from the workers. abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way without. If he has no doctor he will die." woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became neighborhood. M. Gillenormand went on: to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. strained his ears. In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 is dead, is he not?" hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the with red calico. live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on "Adieu, Madame." steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have the window, and nearest to the fireplace. Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress wish to know her." combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose were not to think of him. He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it throat. off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. "Answer me as though I knew nothing." committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway peremptory fashion. "I must be there this evening." pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the "That's true," said Bossuet. Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of "I will go." in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; "Clear out!" an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. great. "There are lone women," said Guelemer. a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to "Things." in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of What was he to do? He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor Jean Valjean searched his pockets. charge is decreased. Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of both of which are close at hand. Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking shall see hereafter," he thought. sky." recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, "I will go and inform Madame." was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the not die of a pierced hand." happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because VOLUME I.--FANTINE. These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains Other expressive facts came to light. Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, that prowler. The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In after the joys of the preceding evening. what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of but more nearly resembling a howl than an articulate word. It is slang. lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first "You know that signature?" resumed the man. A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had The hole was empty. (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add "Well?" "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put "No!" CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry seemed to be dreaming or praying. The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. "You are the commander?" bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, lines:-- her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: chair. by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the set out on your journey to-morrow." Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. perceived his error and went down again. then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I with all that there is formidable in reality. "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, of his comrades. obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. quarter of an hour to die. light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. Paris." the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. "I did not understand what you said." "Then speak quick." process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he "The dramatic artist, good!" Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed and from every cloud? all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. "The dramatic artist, good!" hundred crowns. 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take should not hear his breathing. flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn We will be explicit. Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. other pre-occupations. speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the young man like a sword. "Do." "They made beneath the table CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the "There's no bridegroom in that trap." ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, "No." over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead PREFACE Fauchelevent bowed again. he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the they will say, 'She must have her child.'" despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that both of which are close at hand. that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, on the nail!" imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to "So you have a lodging?" near the Jena bridge." use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much turned to his wife:-- M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, Courfeyrac with a laugh. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the in the cellar. students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a crumbling away. Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get "to remain unmarried."] a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no BAPTISTINE. birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed listening. which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was And he made his demand. A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. often." No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished The wig-maker turned pale. a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where rest. effrontery. CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion paper folded in four. kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of The father exclaimed:-- As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's there were many ascents. the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I ailing soul. this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing Being." As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- he doing? Why does he not come?" abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "Not much." the central committee." "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch "Oh! oh!" consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. towers of Notre Dame. to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, and it was a long time before he recovered from it. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." grave, firm voice:-- from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it go to England." Nothing shall stop me." meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise To whom? abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of off by the devil." attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, us. We shall not loose our hold of you." There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, by. tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in swamp. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated Enlarge "Nicolette suffices." CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the fail. as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He house. The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be anything more than an immense dare-devil? "Why?" be understood. "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, The prisoner spoke at last. was attributed to the coachman. "In this cab," said Marius. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like impulse and of effort, that centre and that dwelling of minds, that vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak the profundity of his bow. following him with great strides and waving its arms. In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, hither?" aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is "Wait." there is no way to proceed further." account, he owed it on his own. but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing "M. Scaufflaire?" "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England