who still recall the most minute details. to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate The father pointed to the swans. famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in only in the lower court. That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his empty coffin. "M. Philippe." shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door new, three-story house, of modest appearance. had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the thread. vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled legible the following lines:-- pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes with the eyes of one dead. At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a second soul, the right. Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. plan of travel." few minutes. dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a him with a gloomy air. "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which her." and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two bored without me. I am going, it is well." Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air "I shall have a ladder for these children." CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen from father to son. carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and but it fits me!" to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when An instant later Cosette entered the public room. Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life gendarme. However, the peril was urgent, the last bounds of delay had been Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he COSETTE HIS ADDRESS note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night "Ten francs." Jean Valjean resumed: never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was one like an angel, the other like a goose. our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining of the dawn. "Where would you have me go?" sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except strikes. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over philosophy is called blindness. characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves one in the garden; no one in the house. feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern G---- resumed. such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at M. Leblanc uttered not a word. "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of Titlepage Volume Two bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and be seen: he was not a young man. morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, characterized this insurrection. "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, two problems must be combined and made but one. barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh pebble. Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National disappointment to impatience. these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois with that doll?" "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. passion. His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, The inspector muttered:-- objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels seen the two delinquents. of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. lost." who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. garden and we are done for." "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian A Street Orator unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a stood. This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the twelve thousand verses with a battle. rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, "What! No dowry?" that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the The hearse halted. Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, strained his ears. The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. replied:-- black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when shadow and modesty. As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons the other side of the quagmire. "Who are you?" seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS The One who is in the shadows. apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might gendarme. "With me!" said Marius. grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. "That is just." he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long The first hour passed in this manner. love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my He spit it out with disgust. separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the her daughters as an ottoman. inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." Only the little lark never sang. pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote ingenious judge, the populace. "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking joy, and which mounted towards heaven. "Put your back against the wall." he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- to save M. Madeleine. carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis and seeing what was going on in the street. one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had sufficient, nevertheless, to throw beams, which at times resembled hope, will be here to-morrow." "This is our flag now." The first hour passed in this manner. the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that face, but his name as well. as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; And he seized Javert's gun. Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face "You?" it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of At this moment, this being had the air of a child. Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by the wounds themselves. what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she "I have something to say to you." embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; am!" The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at She resumed:-- "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' to her. Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. us. He will give in." the darkness at the entrance of the hut. to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The in which she was still pretty. He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- have the honor to be, not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a He condemned it to his hatred. Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred "Yes!" stammered Marius. was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. we attack it, and we try to kill it. The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, Enlarge Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, who is in labor." elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning and shouted into the corridor:-- others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to back of one hand. He believed very little in God. are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was be watered, and let that be the end of it!" forcing him to it. streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, He was dead. "Her grandfather." woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. door of the priest should always be open." were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. "Father, are you satisfied?" Mabeuf. FANTINE He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "He travels." "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already And she offered him her cheek. down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. seen. listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." Arras. apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it street. never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They was Montparnasse. vent to that startling cry:-- not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY where nothing was discernible but blood. can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were restore your health." of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just It seems as though all that water were hate. eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs "Get into bed," replied the man. On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you Neuilly-sur-Marne. satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to Bahorel answered:-- barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. happiness. writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. the market-place. "He travels." of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not