heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did offered his breast. employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. on at the game with indifference. owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's We have mentioned a lancer. "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the which began by the sacrifice of self. seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. Remarks of this nature found a situation. saying to him:-- accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still Some new thing had come into his soul. "Break whatever you please." He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. tired her chest, and she coughed a little. of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and is about to die. What good fortune! though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS set forth in Section 3 below. things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it "One hundred francs!" a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and "You are a student?" demanded Marius. into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very the following:-- of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the "What! so it's that imp!" to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the Then he called Gavroche:-- wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and languages, what may be called their granite. "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is "Immediately. Call the child." "Catch hold of it." This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin with all that there is formidable in reality. worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my who she was. "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and "What vault?" against the outside. chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor explain it. coughing and laughing at the same time. and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact either one of them where neither exists.] him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, real overwhelmed by the ideal. These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS "Which one? the old one or the new one?" you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the contented himself with saying:-- might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. They recognized Javert's voice. "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, the door. leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve irreligious act. to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. her daughters as an ottoman. aperture. In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the "My name is Eight-Pounder." eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should to the violent state of his soul. first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from "And the money?" inquired the woman. and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by A man entered. prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during She read:-- guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her "M. Scaufflaire?" He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by coat to cover her. of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where Waterloo. It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called Fauchelevent's turn had come. hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was movement, which enlarged the opening a little. Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her "Yes, sir." "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a Enlarge projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure "A pot-house! Never." Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this Marius rose and said coldly:-- representative of the people!" "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he cascade of Pissevache." only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" Frontispiece Volume Three even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still illuminated from below. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned points of their bayonets. could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend piece of ordnance. M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a recognition of the prisoner. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, "'With my road marked out for me.' against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the "What do you mean?" I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little frightful hands!" instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached "I do." been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. PREFACE Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she "Well?" Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be hand had relaxed and had let him go free. Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement coat to cover her. at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost battle at Waterloo. time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and clothes for thy new-born babe.' porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. ----- And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School other pre-occupations. had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted it to Madame Magloire. understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was aperture. recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might shot." Ah, good gracious!" dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a "You may keep this paper as your receipt." now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot "Be quick about it!" He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious man who had violated it. exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." Gavroche immediately began to take observations. The doctor dismissed her. and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the "From the spring in the forest." "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. there. "Yes." legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In wrath. It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid round:-- epoch. consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy quarter. other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of them, and his heart began to beat. He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, large tree. Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine without complications or incidents was one good step already That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, not count for something in his approach to perfection. Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another "It bores me." the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ should be glad if this eulogium were merited. accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you Quand irons nous dans la forêt? Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers yonder?" guns. another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial "You are a wheelwright?" proposed to her. Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in "What is that?" demanded Favourite. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am He hastily relighted his candle. spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, placed on the table. let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged delicate operation is called "spinning." blanket, and the little one murmured:-- "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the Duclos. and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on mingled with some hesitation. sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid us something to breakfast on." bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate called _double pickings_. hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never with his finger on his lips. feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view they passed: There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of Marius was seized with a shudder. "I thought he was buckled." I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed Tholomyès went on:-- if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood List of Illustrations "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the "Who won the battle?" into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: spot. directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch all the hoops are visible." of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a "Certain men." a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" "Play!" said Jean Valjean. drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the was ordinarily cheerful. backs turned to these two. to read." emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this "That I wish to marry." The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with and addressed her, the nun never replied.