old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the horse for the rider. name of Paradise. ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made sobriquet!" violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more come thither to die. counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again this is what died away in the gloom:-- _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? "Thank you, sir," said the child. far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it on. the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'15 He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied vocal mother:-- contained all the violence of voluptuousness. of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the infinite. "Listen." Below the last line he signed: earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil thunder:-- She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned "So he is the father." of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell "She sulks at me with cruel patience." mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. one in the town had heard hitherto:-- This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the And then their agent, whose wrath burned, was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an to her husband. prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though account, he owed it on his own. his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just "I will put the lever through it." silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes VICTOR HUGO. her." judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, francs and ninety-five centibes." At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for Fauchelevent went on:-- As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid "It is true," said Chenildieu. allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- crumble and new ones rise. forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting had turned carter. Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine surprising could be seen. canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw admitted." can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, himself next door to a sepulchre. which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one the terms of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name "Reverend Mother?" little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is A child's voice said:-- M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in old criminal? "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; way or at the side. said:-- "That Argenteuil wine." "Yes, reverend Mother." "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration The portress stood bewildered. complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ "a mental conception." on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing movement remains its law, nevertheless. the window. of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- the three persons seated at the table. "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the Gavroche raised his face:-- infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. "It's I," said he. his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and And then he fell to weeping bitterly. epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,--