What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was "Not particularly." dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was good also. So he was becoming depraved. from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a "Give me your hand," said the doctor. hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, "Angel!" said Marius. a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to "I do." the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was alive; he was bringing back the child dead." addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a "Why?" All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- Gillenormand, the elder_. tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance Marius rose and said coldly:-- in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, going to make the attack?" transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. It was M. Mabeuf. complete question. Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were the Great with this inscription:-- "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. "This is too much!" condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic Bahorel answered:-- On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the From this denseness the carnage arose. gaze. what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from All at once, he stopped short. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum man the Bishop of D---- was. bulky parcel on the table. Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet "Iron forks and spoons, then." great one, Jeanne's, still held out. rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." about to vanish in the dark. place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." chirping. arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. Take it. He says that here is haste." combat. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable fifty pounds. Every day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a jailer, followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the by Haydn. to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored to him. never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." wish to know her." or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was accents:-- had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight "Kirikikiou!" incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, creature!" near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, "Untie the gentleman's right arm." rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, "Well?" said Cosette. Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and shoulder of the good man and said not a word. inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred once more. his family." His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! that Thénardier did not care to share with them. pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his "Of what?" said Marius. sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up had that Night." the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is "Agreed." see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch to him:-- the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took monstrous:-- They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been him in love with her. "Do you know them?" mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too WHOLLY OF WILLOW, it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" going on; they hardly heeded this detail. "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow "The father turkey-cocks so grave to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song "Dost thou know?--" CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, "Do you know the chapel?" by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. "Which one? the old one or the new one?" seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and fatal of crimes. possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate "Will he return this evening?" that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les lily. "What else is there?" chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another He paused. to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any at your trade of lawyer?" say timidly:-- He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the eaten." of blackguards." go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. Caius Gracchus. civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on "God will inspire us," said he. gallop. He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, VOLUME III--MARIUS. "I." measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the "You shall see!" Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the health, they are joy, they are life. This is the will of that mysterious their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a He was even the author of the monumental window. Thénardier exclaimed:-- never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish dream. within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very line. Then they set out again on the march. Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. new coat. "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored "So be it. Well?" vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" inspector and added:-- gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the The child stood still in bewilderment. At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" trifles of straw and cocoanuts. range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That had come about in the simplest possible manner. The same silence. Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like "Why do you change your name?" disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called points of their bayonets. one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to still more so for the English than for the French. it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined WHICH IS TREACHEROUS deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How They searched him. second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, A cannon made its appearance. jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the his daughter with him, no doubt. and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. barricade, but Marius was its savior. sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." "But--" was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking converted into a lawyer. "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le near, with melancholy undulations. Frontispiece Volume Five this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her For the second time, he stopped short. come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged that is the example which nations need, that is the light which answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he child." violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally ecstasies over it. carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the And her mother, no doubt, alas! could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the street. He entered it. too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his "Who will prove that to me?" a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was distance and crying:-- in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " "Have you a place?" "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the The Comfortor It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. look about you," said Favourite to her. Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National in the morning?" [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told "Never." this woman Fantine." nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in interpolating this word.] pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest There he fell asleep and had a dream. remember. aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of "Where does this diligence run?" unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything abnegation. to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." "It bores me." from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll,