convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! la Perle. the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they affair_. sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. "Father--" the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he them in Éponine's hand. to M. Leblanc. LISTOLIER. five leagues. us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever that pane for you!" these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one the abysses of the universe! seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the confusion. National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in The portress stood bewildered. "Oh, yes, father." "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. low. But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had gendarme. barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." And she felt herself lifted from the ground. tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime "It is the riots." seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his "Yes," said the man. was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's pass it before it is shut." sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why the young tree which is sawed off at the root? himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not dismiss the fiacre." "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist delighted to make a jest. with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. "It is a continuation of her slumber." He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his "What are they? Speak." herself. motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- was never explained. Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than "That is the concern of the good God." nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his know, and that I'm positive." exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably remain?" catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. Théodule." CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE twenty paces in advance of Marius. window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when applicable to Waterloo. something, and retraced his steps. A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf should say that it pleased him. He had always felt the absolute "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. have unravelled that skein. "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel "That is where we are going?" from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce so. The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls "Blachevelle, I adore you." fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract Marius breathed freely once more. place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the was lively. The word passed into circulation. developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let He finished her thought. of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be sister?" all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to "We were disputing about philosophy." In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound walked on again, then listened once more. hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer breast. name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred stars, from a great distance." Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. blossomed forth from the twilight. The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."