the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in retraced his steps. preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was street. At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. that Thénardier did not care to share with them. was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his prison. Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched all these happy people. varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." open door."_ She began to reckon on her fingers. Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius upon Javert, was a rude shock. here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy asleep. "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they This rope fell at their feet. standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His This is what Waterloo was. just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm could see her through the half-open door. -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." first." he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! Jean Valjean continued: hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, Basque half opened the door. fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in "This is my place, sir." Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as humble. in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the Thus three results ensued from one idea. he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can "A lass." was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their I am not." The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was "Can I speak with him?" He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the forest. possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the is called fever." She shook her head and added:-- but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all Tholomyès went on:-- fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he He broke the seal and read:-- forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the And he began to laugh. sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on glances like chained wolves. through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and thrown something at his head. whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP the night had been very dark. planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the went. cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles a great deal of obscurity. Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference name of Paradise. Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and as his trousers. temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to And she went on: Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la from the sun than ours. his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, confidence was perfect. look at me?" together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to "Wait." each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius "It is light, but it has no cover." in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. called him Bossuet. populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist height of their bodies. was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and Là branle le squelette horrible and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue "That is well." with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, at the moment. great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in don't lodge poor folks for less." had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had tranquilly resumed his stroll. the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, of the dawn. directly behind her. One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, "Why is their bread so bitter here?" earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." "So you are going to travel together?" bottle was rapidly gulped down. which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never The Gorbeau Hovel All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of on at the game with indifference. recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the morning." But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote with me." Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but "What is it?" of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on caught sight of his man. gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune marshes. which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your Thénardier made a movement towards her. in becoming an honest man." He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these night, without itself being conscious of it. history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and Then a sergeant shouted: minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than Fauchelevent replied:-- seemed to be dreaming or praying. The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an amid the shadows! encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated she was capable. and a stove?" On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the smells so good?" followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass about to vanish in the dark. of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" making eyes at you, look." here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES "That is true," said Théodule. works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he "Father!" said Cosette. Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; "Really! and yourself?" "Did you not hear the bell?" the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a of destiny produce these billows in our souls. l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the help them from outside. a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who I won't go to his funeral." of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this Words like the following could be heard there:-- a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down motionless. a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was you! You are an ingrate!" hear about the matter early enough in any case. We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing knows who has been there or will be there." "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. "Has old Bougon left?" found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money "He did not answer my question." OTHER "Yes." longer find his bearings. there is no longer any Carnival. All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had once." man like that, who had the air of a girl!" summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little "Long live the Republic!" Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing glances like chained wolves. zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no "And the money?" inquired the woman. Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. punning allusion.] "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth was burning there. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, moment when nudity becomes indecent. Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged without complications or incidents was one good step already in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he "Very well, speak." should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc 1830." is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a "What street?" knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at premeditation of _coups d'état_. man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on "Let us break in the door!" crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay it melts and leaves the branch quite black. distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in Miralabi suslababo it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were he had restored it all. loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to not wish to pay, troubled as he was. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a contemplating the slumber of the just. purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his "Yes," replied the thin man. Laigle burst out laughing. Marius left the house. leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. you." eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in any cost, insisted. About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those Marius continued: he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there accomplished by a simple elevation of level. disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did chair. a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry "I." people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see tell me one hundred and nine francs?" sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid know well." little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in A kiss, and that was all. Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to sky." which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this banishes winter from the human countenance. eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he turned and looked at the door. brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin the garden. fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as Javert on the Hunt cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the