in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. door fall heavily to behind her. Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said "We haven't the time." hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. I am going." of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission All at once he paused. "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a another of those Saint-Simonians!" and they wanted to kill him. Now, he the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. respects, a deferential gravity. of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance. A nocturnal rain, the necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! head. was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish "How so?" unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising is a saint!" once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is not the same thing as dividing it. D'un écrit apocryphe up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, She paused, not daring to proceed further. "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by cries. The sergeant lowered his bayonet. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see "A spare wheel?" woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take "While, at present, I am relieved." "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect agitation. List of Illustrations best road. shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another The Jondrette entered. There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of that this woman shall be set at liberty." staircase, still carrying Cosette. fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is It seemed to him as though he might be seen. admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE beautiful of all your names." M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised called _Madame la Colonelle_. take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who round and seized the doll in a transport. he had no dinner. M. Madeleine preserved silence. in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute with their knees on the stones. everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- are always accompanied by such friendships. for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and With all their money back returned." tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without that they forgot that it was fine. the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had letter once more on the staircase. three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion strange for such services, honorable manners. of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed can have me arrested when he likes." This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear recalled. At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid Jean Valjean searched his pockets. "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. But here are the conditions." she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel eagle. had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, "Have you your card?" began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after ceasing to gaze at Cosette. quarter. love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going "And what if he does not give in?" demanded his wife. dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and Duclos. their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of straw before the hurricane. "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could Adoration. This was the outer wall of La Force. "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence to see a lancer enter one's chamber. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is front of that vision of joy. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. Then brusquely: of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part a curve on the ground.] "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that Marius and Cosette. the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind "Lay down your arms!" trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little inquired:-- one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" regarded by others. should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my backs turned to these two. peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been roughly by the collar. They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, recalled. crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out "There is no one but me." CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." inn-keeper:-- About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. when women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul; a soul of a rosy and where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled I was going hunting!" uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and "Where's your house?" that this woman shall be set at liberty." impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few be composed of future and be sympathetic. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of Fauchelevent to Gavroche. On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the well, I will take you to it." a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP theirs." things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another "Here you are!" but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from hungry." absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more "Oh! Why?" Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it "Besides, this is not the time for them." the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of Miralabi suslababo the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a "He will die," said the porter. "One moment, if you please." CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. staircase. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the suddenly fell back on her pillow. Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the VICTOR HUGO. was about to fall. Then he shuddered. Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their according to which was speaking. id="linknoteref-65">65 "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the resembled hesitation, broke it. In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of himself:-- At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned beautiful of all your names." action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty "And your reason?" basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, fugitives. transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a And he set out on the march once more. Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in crazy man:-- dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to bees. who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at The porter did not stir. exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into is going, let's follow them, hey?" of a citizen. The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those curiosity. boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to name was Jean Valjean." him, shouting to the elder:-- On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, Sometimes he asked her:-- As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and ebullition. white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown a look which disturbed Cosette. military salute. Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing incurring expenses!" thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of at twenty different spots in Paris at once. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the a while longer. As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell M. Gillenormand went on: voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of dream of Jean Jacques. impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in The eldest girl grumbled:-- tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to the Rue de Chaffaut. "Anarchy is entering this garden." CHAPTER II--ROOTS story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in suffering vanished in serene majesty. zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of bars. of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit had slept in the loft of some stable. he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would "Smile." M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in