raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. "Well?" He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was "And your name?" had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six creature!" advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are the grave. Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval "You do not belong in these parts?" Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with him say:-- resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. pallets, which were empty. suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when white between. CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think hardly thirty years ago. "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with Something barred his way in that direction. and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there Enlarge matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over The father rose. An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to that spy?" the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no swing, and said:-- you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on one." They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must "Take your revenge." yard than in close confinement. brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. women were fond of begging. were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a Nuncio lived. Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant It was time that this vast man should fall. casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the This hovel was only one story high. beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, his head down. soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at change all that; it is high time!" reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace. crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that An instant later Cosette entered the public room. Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched "Adieu, Madame." He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the Such was this curious house. of the grave young man and the frivolous old man. The gayety of Géronte that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure rest. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. "You do not believe in everything." The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. law." and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the which were common with him. Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, the English call respectability for his house. Then turning to the elder:-- far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, agitation. One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, indiscreet and curious:-- "Where it went?" gleam. "That old fellow?" The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had angle of the Corinthe building. which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become "Of course. He told us." hundred francs. "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the wolf. Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding The investigation had begun. continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal And he left the room. to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, "You have two pretty children, Madame." climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it stood in his eye. left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The "Where are we going?" His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in establishment?" of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the beginning, the whole play would have been changed." along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they And this other poem:-- grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials obscurity, something which was moving. Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT Dambray, peer of France." sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click in a lightning flash, the people and God. renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in "What is it?" When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. table. never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She had been able to remain in France. the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK "I? I work." theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." herself that she must know what it contained. Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and MARINGO the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET "Which?" He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. "I don't know." through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to "What?" on her knees. iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. window. The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; the one to give that terrible outcry. However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with "Forward march to the battle!" one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all slope of the redoubt, into his basket. Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, door of ill and opened the door of good. Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without from the foils. He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life second offence. In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, The traveller paid to Lagny. and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that He recoiled and stammered:-- slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed "By taking two post-horses?" At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking shouted:-- In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must "No." might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them to him:-- The door opened. had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely before it was sent off, and who recognized Javert's handwriting on the again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, "You have been a soldier?" to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. id="linknoteref-44">44 They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from should choose the barbarians. by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. "Your health, Claquesous." to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the single spot of intelligence. house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not against the chimney-piece once more. recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, "It will be given to the earth." He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of vermin. On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR have unravelled that skein. Valjean. "M. Scaufflaire?" spectre. A heart-rending question presented itself. nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is had deserted him. All that he had believed in melted away. Truths which of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even radiance of death. That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its therein mentioned; that is clear." chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable to be looking on. "Oh! terrible drugs." All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. wheeled round. very low tone:-- And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they "Not even of you, father!" Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR She began to reckon on her fingers. brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have that he had actually been guilty of theft. house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several recover the sight of one eye. He refused. enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. So saying, the usher turned his back. the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six assailed, scaled, and never captured. CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, Foundation department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld to their community. longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their Englishman." eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the "Or somewhere in that direction." So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it befits it. brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius into the street. the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities children drew close to Gavroche. combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and the thoughtful man. taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed resemble shaved heads. the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five to the ladies for an hour." of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. "Yes, Babet." an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a I am going." key. rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." "Nor to any one?" said Marius. Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do wretch, by that innocent being. Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. and which was saying to him:-- that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already "Blachevelle, I adore you." say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also on his brow. his coat. document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned God. have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the dearly!" A double tubular apparatus, provided with valves and sluices, sucking up twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it the two entered the tap-room. darling." all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very You must not be egoists." of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, best road. cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? cartridges left in the barricade." her in a low voice:-- had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Valjean. No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, "Sire, a post-office." out in minds. the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in On the following day he did not come. placed on the table. capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- their doll! girl. should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." different groups. A shout went up:-- accompanied these words.