me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the "And you are to be turned out of this one." elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she up and replied: "Javert." existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and He confined himself to replying: "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. that, as children, they have a right to flowers. "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated "What old cove?" trouble. strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. to find it again. admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in Monsieur." right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue from it. from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy "You shall see!" agony: Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair you, do you listen here." one shudder to think of it!" complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that resolution. whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never Fauchelevent replied:-- the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast principal problems. it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" slang. reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. from it. Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" to ask you something." of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through amazement before this mystery of sublimity. and approached the door. wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized Marius made no reply. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's human wall! In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. and was spying on his proceedings. However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes strides. His eyes were extraordinary. There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the mind became overcast in hers. that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient amounts to nothing. head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires indescribable courageous despondency. stage-manager of such conversations. the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two the Monarchy." you go out. You have paid, now clear out." "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted to address him. CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or at the disposition of all underground tragedies. and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And grand events of small districts had taken place. cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, you." Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether Marat. that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your and daylight have arrived. middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there that it issued from an abyss. English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the childhood." the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of "Like other people." not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- tail." his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most Grantaire replied:-- we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem hedge. elder Jondrette girl. is what a bishop is like." clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young sound. On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its and saw nothing. plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. As we stroll the faubourgs through, each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE should have done, and have freed his house from that man. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" livres that I allow you?" understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going of his meditation? the first man is desirous of shirking. Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was other. which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause such an expression, is to be the conqueror! pace. love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, lower part of the body from injury. search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. white. Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. To No there is only one reply, Yes. "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the that The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- Fauchelevent replied:-- on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly "Somewhat." fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, And turning to Marius:-- She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the night. you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and We are for religion as against religions. "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles of joy." going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that bade you let her go?" "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like Thus their life clouded over by degrees. "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his "That is understood." Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human Wednesday; but not for the birds." find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, pole surmounted by a red cap. of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal "Fire!" said the voice. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. an indication of a sagacious mind. roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- Don don don Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. It was time that this vast man should fall. chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what And he seized Javert's gun. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, these treacheries. rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." the rhododendron was happy now. Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. "Father!" cried Marius. alias Deux-Milliards." it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing surprise. creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he some mystery in what he was doing. come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last flowers. gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down square. of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might that vault Lacenaire emerges. mother, but I have claws like a woman." And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey shoulder of the good man and said not a word. Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in each other there. I want to know it." some disorder beneath it; liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in fist,--such was the attack. enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing knocking the house down." This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have They did not hear him. The grave-digger resumed:-- "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame "Food and lodging," said the man. Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had friends of those bygone days. it's all the same to me, come on!" Christ is the man-God. being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, without weakness. when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his the people of Queyras!" avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur him once. the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. day?" and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this was thirty-five minutes past eleven. grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to "Yes." beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. He cried to Cosette:-- to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a "Forty sous." projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the me." rat_ in his hand. more." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Hart, the Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. bade you let her go?" In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; "I am an agent of the authorities." "I." had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled He seized the two candlesticks. assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This