the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, "But, Mr. Mayor--" "And that you are a rascal. Here." this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous The moon was sinister over this plain. this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. "Yes." The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is "It must be, said a warrior." At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which Minette. and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of dismiss me." right, and entered the forest with long strides. of things!" faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." One evening he had a singular apparition. Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there consigning something sublime to History. As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had "I." of a starving man. However, after supper he said: leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, not understand, which made the goodman furious. At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. "I will obey." "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding been nineteen years in the galleys: five years for house-breaking "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last order. To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for inherited his pickaxe. he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the fresh pink muslins of the doll. hands of Providence. Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the your hair tumbled thus." ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he passed. This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he And she had replied: "This." composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the the woods. there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension to the police. March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while "Do you know them?" However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light sun, one must be made. admiration. CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the conjectures of the indictment. if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He the galleys like?" they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their of the tap-room. the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with when her face was in repose. deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally powerful in his crime. Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me "Yes." twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been and luminous fact. BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" room and said: been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the there. in the name of principle!" other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE little sister did not stir. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. of him! These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, single spot of intelligence. warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people into the street. in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, immediately." their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he returned quite late at night. a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with They pray. "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the on his arrival. remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of "O modesty!" said Marius. possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he band of zinc. is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding And Grantaire began again:-- Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had life!" bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, "Good day, Gueulemer!" him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more 7." on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been chimney-pots. entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an "Who nails up the coffin?" She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I statesman. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- from a gloomy edifice. was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. warrior picks up his buckler. shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. There he fell asleep and had a dream. strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of direction of liberty. shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a Valjean resumed: In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces "So he has not left his new address?" The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper something terrible. the prison."_ "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, "And how long will the case last?" like a person!" Marius' brow grew more and more severe: instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections gnaw your heart this evening!'" other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went could not doubt. He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering other." of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." The beggars. Madeleine shuddered. "There is the sun." save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must is about to die. What good fortune! Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or stained brow. had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are Arras. thoughts, even the stone. Saint-Marcel. who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the authority buttoned to the chin. Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A shouted to him:-- Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a it was the mayor once more. Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done this manner she reached the spring. "I." was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, The father went on: Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused Marius, "and in what condition they are." June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded thought. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat "Firing from cannon." This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. CHAPTER IV have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that alas! and the most darkness. uniform." mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. answer from Jondrette. were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a there; the girl had disappeared. his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). The two men took counsel together. At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He personage who was in advance. life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- future, be exact." The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. everything. wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the "There's a dog." there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six to have patience. dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man reason for desiring that you should know who I am." not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but thing. Error! CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL do not abandon the people." Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw seemed to grow even to the ceiling. the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one pole surmounted by a red cap. have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. none the less, a vision. The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of "How pretty it is here!" they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. other and assuming, each the other's qualities. dangerous to have extremes meet. and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the "I say more often." sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. utter them aloud. inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to little lead sword from a box behind her. At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but "That is true." sort of long, subterranean corridor. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied they had contained but one soul. interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the