of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the smile. nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève "Where do you live, little one?" internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the "Yes, sir." Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of dream. little. thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in "Only fasten the rope to the wall." "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot at a time. These men watched me pass. "All! All!" the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible "Little one, you are the Queen of France." proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" "Blank." being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation age, he had reached the hole in the partition. royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker "I know how to read, I do!" dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in there. her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. animal. He never shot at a little bird. Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, "Certainly, sir." We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the The traveller paid to Lagny. there. upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything once." formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, crumble and new ones rise. his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for Night had come. nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for had purchased at Saint-Cloud. feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this Valjean. Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and "I will give you six francs a month." a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he "Smile." We must suppose that is what he said to himself." that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized "No." lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. held by a glance. have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with "What?" He paused and waited. escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people and which was saying to him:-- this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all his head that he did not. de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the "Does it require many drugs?" short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff is a proverb: encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing "Come in," he said feebly. Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It end of the room. All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of and stared intently at Marius. Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. the centuries, halos of civilization. don't have a finger in the pie." I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not "Every one is in the family." This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to of life been established between this celestial little creature and that nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob went. hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier "Take your revenge." A year passed; then another. He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior with me." From time to time Marius absented himself. It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the on top of each other. Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be tell himself. of the eleven thousand devils." CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, "No," replied the porter. "He is the gentleman on the third floor." his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O became ferocious. yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have "One." did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the towards all children and sufferers. been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. and a great man on the brink of the abyss. In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's Nihilism has no point. mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this of Valois. lacking in the house. "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the show-window had suddenly been fractured. emerge at nightfall and in disguise. Frontispiece Volume Three going to make the attack?" this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. should be governed only by science." There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." display them? This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom soul. Pontmercy and yourself." "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'