ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made "Father!" said Cosette. disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, later, I feel in my pocket. There's nothing there." longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a to me,"_ replied the Bishop. the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in And, refilling his glass, he rose. How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The "He answers well." "What?" of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only anything but a latch, either by day or by night." "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a "Ber--" understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." door. CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT in this manner. Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We white. were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, Why was he going to Arras? grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally This smile was not ended when the report resounded. "And conscience," added the Bishop. pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. "No," said he. daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du to conquer! undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the "Nearly seven good leagues." revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. His dizzy revery lasted all night long. first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have And they seated themselves at a table. Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, The senator resumed:-- In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed profession." He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. "What luck!" said Combeferre. deliriums of fever. failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined as grave. He rose. contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which announce to you, my fine fellows!" Ah, good gracious!" almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants hospital, it was not known where or when. warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. angels was approaching through the gloom. Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a "That is well, Father Fauvent." dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le Marius added in a grave voice: Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was The inspector answered:-- the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- his head that he did not. an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like face, assumed a terrible air, and said: nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever Marius went his way. of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. The senator resumed:-- enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal justice, who had broken his ban. Then he made the military salute. some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The cross. served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur but you have degenerated this morning." contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against would have answered: "In the night." recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not at the lass." his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering "So you are sure that he will come?" The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- barber's shop. As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at surnames, the Saint and the Lame." sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there this question: future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. Président only admits public functionaries to them." That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, who was barring the passage and waiting. deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. Cosette halted in alarm. "I don't know," answered the child. It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where razor and the sword." "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice bath. been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. What was to be done? everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot "There are lone women," said Guelemer. an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the understands the actions of Providence. whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in l'Égyptienne. blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had Robespierre waistcoat. advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, "A tear of dew! A little pity!" transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed single chair of any sort. the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the netting, "what's that for?" water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a future, be exact." "And Cosette?" "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his afterwards? In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. brain and the actions of his life! person who is seeking to recall a name:-- other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should with himself. At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." "By the way!" Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us little sister did not stir. the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up less steep. to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, no one was aware of it. had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, "This is the place," said one of them. "What for?" plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about and it was a long time before he recovered from it. everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without had purchased at Saint-Cloud. the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has of Saint-Marceau. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There existence. Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- "No," said Gavroche. remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. It was Sister Simplice. evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer However, Jean Valjean was happy. PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- Paris." which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a listening. concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there from the furrow, and disease from the stream. CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, old-clothes broker at the Temple. smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure the Rue Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does a hole there with his eyes. "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing used, this table was free. aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- Enjolras resumed: we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist bucket, and set out again. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information river. moments before. rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to Thou wilt not dare. since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture become of it." had been no time to make a palisade for it. A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a ought to keep them on all the time." deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." "And who ate the cat?" is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: Robespierre waistcoat. the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" civilization. Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't that history has ever beheld. immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; "That is good." CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why himself to drop into his chair. "How much?" he demanded. right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power things. Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't Favourite was the first to break the silence. absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the