which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast been arrested by properly conducted police." corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the you know!" A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out "It was not good for her; it hurt her. "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame Jean Valjean made no reply. Zéphine. What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the faith. information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my to an unhappy soul. CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn "I tell you that it is she. You will see." At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION her hand opened the door. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in VICTOR HUGO. with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, This made both of them laugh the whole evening. of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that Remarks of this nature found a situation. The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from one shudder to think of it!" There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when uttering the word _country_. Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All Service was written _servisse_. charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though And Courfeyrac added:-- points of their bayonets. vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own said:-- breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. frightful hands!" mind. Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He "You have not given me anything." guns. which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the gendarme. creature is insensible:-- sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: The sister replied:-- powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you "Colonel Sainval." at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. "Monsieur?" on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop grave resembled her bed. Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were Marius looked at the thumb. destroyed, Somerset remained. appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical the South. The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are that slumbering Progress. garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: "What?" make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have This is the way things went:-- the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly gleam. Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely "I get down here," said the man. Then he turned to Cosette. Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." statue. Fauchelevent replied:-- "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was once more at the Luxembourg. this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was obscure. cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above He set out on his way once more. precedes the death agony. Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet them also, muttering: At that moment, nine o'clock struck. permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous Marius found himself alone. that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She accompanied these words. exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and "I will bring you something." be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's The others were men; these were women. the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and we were told. The orchard is terrible. All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against "Nothing." professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand reason for desiring that you should know who I am." Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her "Twelve." One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by presence of the porter of a factious person. was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the middle of the room, and said:-- And Jean Valjean added:-- who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, opening. shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at Exelmans quitted the procession. not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, "Immediately," replied the landlord. They recognized Javert's voice. found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three brain and the actions of his life! injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one begins to behold the stars of the tomb? sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed set forth in Section 3 below. bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his only in the lower court. which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. "No." for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with you live now?" the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, shoes from a dead man. "Me!" said Jean Valjean. antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her write to that good old soul?" eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to "Wait until the day after to-morrow." from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at the trouble of the world!" CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION the Eternal Father. the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would fathers of families_. That was the formula. shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood Bishop's palace. so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed CHAPTER III--THE LARK erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? presented himself and said to Marius:-- augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." "Yes? '93!" himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark down from his brow. lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, profound conviction. "Nicolette suffices." The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of head. Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the was heard. directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as there. the Rue Saint-Denis. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage the middle of the garret. erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs shortens,--the Gospel's. work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated bottle was rapidly gulped down. police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his This explosion over, he added:-- "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. in the most barefaced manner. find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast "I can't budge." Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS "Navet, Gavroche's friend." "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when I know all about it." abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, bar of iron. nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he And he straightened up his crooked back. is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out And addressing Enjolras: The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on "Ah! Babet." "That makes no difference to me." France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to "It must be, said a warrior." the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. what made me run so." him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was Fantine inquired:-- should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. Providence intervened. which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed "Mr. Mayor, the truth is the truth. I am sorry; but that man is Jean "Listen." the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the It was conceived as follows:-- Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT up to gaze were audible. net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man Not a man in the group stirred. hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we there. it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, "The landlord is not pleased." and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds have just given you fifteen hundred francs." the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet him, she said:-- jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, and luminous fact. child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, "Enter, my good man." The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:-- CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in before something which was coming after. On all sides there were and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and Then he spoke of something else. procure a dynasty. warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and shaking up. "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in "His name is Jean Valjean." is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the She returned to the bench. will pay as though I occupied a room." had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil round and seized the doll in a transport. as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the _Moniteur_. to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning,