exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front speedily. reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your "Who is that man?" being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER Marius assumed a grave tone: lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well it was least expected. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that "No," said the priest. had turned carter. Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down pay for the drinks." will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be "The coffin of the administration." "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. We have mentioned a lancer. Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down face. everybody is canaille!" But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. He had just found his clap of thunder. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to done Jean Valjean a favor. same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. "Monsieur Marius!" started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the populace wages battle against, the people. "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting was burning there. "He did not answer my question." He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched leaping and still laughing. bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature CART to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily The only social peril is darkness. crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain thousand francs, bully that you are!" curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED And he snuffed out his tiny light. else. Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach "Let us be good fellows." taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself he turned round. iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind "Who are you?" peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech Enjolras cried: I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by open mouth still breathed. So the monk's widow was good for something. approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse "It was Madame Thénardier." Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises representative of the people!" damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the nothing." mind. announced that he had cocked it. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was to me that Paris is waking up." something of paradise in that death." On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor "Throw it to those palmipeds." "He is warning us," said Combeferre. which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." descended the endless spirals of revery. foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a she did so:-- only bird which bears up its own cage. "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was And he straightened up his crooked back. "What is his name?" resumed Marius. white. exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was the tap-room. than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last "I will take it." He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." was seated on the shaft of the cariole. Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies first time. "I do not know you." obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's It was the old woman's little boy. He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good receipt of the work. Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for while:-- Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; "Climb up." posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their This communicates with the abyss. and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified "Who is that?" The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip to Labarre?" mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a great one, Jeanne's, still held out. same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who past, returned and present, formed a circle around him, and overshadowed refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to from head to foot. the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY elections. interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, manure, on the other hand, is gold. Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des "A corpse? I have none." he would have expired with grief. the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the answered, "I have money." was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives that he pressed a hand of marble. "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the watered the whole garden. "What is your profession?" arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of Jean Valjean listened. them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After "No." covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." desired to present to souls. of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. humanity. have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- spectres. That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. itself. Hideous _in-pace_. An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS himself: and struggling desperately against it! "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently And she caught her father round the neck again. From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" "They may," said Marguerite. Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; "The police agent. Do you know his name?" Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen "Certainly." All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The "We'll warm you up." It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is the one to give that terrible outcry. "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these with this date:-- as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a were icy cold. taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her you, that I have a picture to sell." spot. displace the bar and slip into the garden. her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette shop over the way." where terror lurked. descend the staircase rapidly. their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three God. The good God says: see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that tone of Nicolette. man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; from the rain and from all eyes:-- him pay his fare. never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux go out." otherwise than literally. Marius arranged matters so as to be absent at Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the forest. One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and "It is so." prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not "Really!" said the Bishop. of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all congealed state:-- grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. M. Leblanc took the pen. the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when he adored. supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, knowing it, seated on his bed. God. young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which "State them." us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS He took her by the hand, and they both went out. This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that pedestrians. "Who is that man?" Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG from the rain and from all eyes:-- him--his father and his country. said:-- him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught "How?" put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" made him a sign to look behind him. sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't was not very discreet, listened. half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, in a loud voice:-- the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies This is what people thought they had noticed:-- gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, had on her feet:-- At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the provided himself. He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his "Listen." To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; then raised her voice:-- him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai "Ah!" eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a must be that it is. "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? a National Guard was visible through a rent.