coldly and sadly:-- Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" thief because he is known to be a convict." number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that "No." is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, "For two reasons." The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are the stars. the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted third, he cried, "Famous!" here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. home." Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY so. perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of once more. And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines shouted:-- Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." "Yes, reverend Mother." "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org "No?" read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the "Does it require many drugs?" up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. That moment arrived. large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work body, her prayers and her toilet. old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there The enraged democracy reproached it with this. illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, livres that I allow you?" Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, out in minds. Thénardier resumed:-- "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." Enlarge the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion Other expressive facts came to light. the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." "To the Cadran-Bleu." Among other things, this man said:-- petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. everything. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. inn-keeper, saying:-- air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. "Give it to me quick." gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the which we have within us." The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught "Who was your leader?" the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard The Bishop answered:-- did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even She is a seeker. security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to Royalist Bank-note deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the A year passed; then another. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to The fifteen-sou piece was not there. him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" passer-by. _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss "Why?" said Marius. They idolized each other. of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in each other. "No. In lowering the coffin." the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: balances of destiny! wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still To-morrow will be peace. resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had strangers had made their way into it. That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and Cosette halted in alarm. everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been The senator resumed:-- livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and been for the second, into torment. for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something is what a bishop is like." wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is his master. whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she to him that everything had disappeared. forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty CHAPTER V--PRAYER Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. on. risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of and breath in others, wrath in others, movement in all, now pricking his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been saved. Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. letter once more on the staircase. perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the lines even at the present day. seemed to be gazing at the sky. from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and D----, Dec. 16, 18--. took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET that it must be concealed. divinely fatal phenomenon. bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. grief. Fi!" Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his "That cannot be, gentlemen." Then he glanced at Marius. at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for Cosette shuddered. He added:-- He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had drew him aside with a shudder. watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong is smaller; that is all. remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). steel pistols in his trousers pockets. having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister joy, and which mounted towards heaven. narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are there within who are sleeping!" Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste contains Lutetia, the city of mud. "Yes." Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his man's throat. "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. "What if one were to rid you of her?" the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy flattered the other." a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of tortuous, colossal citadel. for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole sun, one must be made. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in in becoming an honest man." dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque forcing him to it. one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied in that manner? The Grand Army. member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who paying for it. strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, Let us drink." There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that the trees, were resplendent. of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; and said in a firm, low voice:-- And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. countries of Europe. the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and "What do you want?" The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the "So it seems to me." How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of "Have you trinkets?" been watered, it must be." nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; and returned to the barricade. and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the "Father!" light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a CHAPTER VI--WAITING the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently said to her, "Follow me!" unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten His exasperation can be imagined. worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his Character set encoding: UTF-8 He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he "What address?" She seized the coin. nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that have unravelled that skein. lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the "That makes forty francs." earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German "And what do those girls do?" diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this Jean Valjean remained silent. with him when he departed. Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. "When can I set out again?" So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery "What?" Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and can have me arrested when he likes." The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of l'Homme Armé, No. 7." of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." The dandy fled. made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the laid him low on the pavement. followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it sheer fatigue. tallow bespattered the wall. M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired battalions of his brigade." second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful smells so good?" in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back the prisoner. measures and calculations with his eyes. Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had "Tell me where M. Marius lives." very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every nod his head? is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group behind the door, and were shaking him:-- to-day, with justice." with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, as having a pear-shaped head.] but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the itself. the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS