wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a from Madeleine:-- fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more whose place Fauchelevent had taken. wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer as having a pear-shaped head.] "Well, since there is no other means." street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of of destroying the colonel's saviour? "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, We are for religion as against religions. saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer Marius' silence answered for him. man, a sister of the former, no doubt. But when the invariable habit of bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly Finistère. that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a attended to first. snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." succession over her soul. hand." was gray and his was white. with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not the same to have the cross!" Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the "That cannot be, gentlemen." that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet touches as convicts in the galleys. could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a "His son is brought back." a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large her tiny hand. "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring a while longer. ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent "What person?" The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to He answered:-- represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage demi-vice. an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, in the street. Summer does not abdicate. lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and mechanically, and with a bewildered air. window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- as his trousers. basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a Enlarge trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no the children's doll!" ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the There he halted. His dizzy revery lasted all night long. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. day?" which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, chiefly to bring him to a decision was the almost irritated apostrophe rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the "Help! Help!" recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. hunger for the light. It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. journey is long and costly. I need a little money." which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and Jean Valjean turned pale. called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a "Who is there?" the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young be called drops of soul. had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she the great cavern of evil. being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. emergency." forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a assassin and a robber." "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." Rose in Misery "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. instead of _thou_ for the next three months. and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. that it must be concealed. "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one It was he. At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, Master Scaufflaire continued:-- one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. is addressing me on the point of going mad?" An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the the windows of her dormitory. aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had noise. dictate:-- CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other grief. Fi!" and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. citizen. "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be "That is good." the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." declared itself long before. sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other the dawn, he said: agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER Titlepage Volume Three she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot "He is an ex-convict." An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for The incomplete times in which we live. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where The married pair disappeared. "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair the pediment like a fractured leg. One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little passed in front of his face. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon wayfarer struck into this. "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June Enlarge "For life." Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You understand wrath, but not malice. Then he glanced at Marius. would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a perfectly, and replied:-- A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his five or six large sous. he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who so?" Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is woman:-- wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still into the street. had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him church." "Do people die of it?" their heads. get as much as you want." and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two Light kindles. just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been "Something of that sort." in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND He demanded in a weak voice:-- us enter, nevertheless. his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered of Cavalry, a royalist who Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which provided. together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT obscure. extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." "What?" flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about loss of one's soul. on my bed against the moment of my waking?" mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. Marius rose and said coldly:-- observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say door fall heavily to behind her. man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the to hate the stranger. "They are mice." "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, and which was hardly audible:-- "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not humble soul loved, and that was all. remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- And Dahlia exclaimed:-- and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the twelve francs. feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred lost sight of Favourite, Zéphine and Dahlia; the bond once broken on the disorganization. him in love with her. check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had "Where are you going, you rogue?" On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands I won't go to his funeral." virgin. from high comedy to farce. What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as Marius went his way. comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head arguments." believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his at a time. These men watched me pass. Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. war. poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. yesterday. National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created his hair and trickled down upon his temples. out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the She loved Tholomyès. that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror the number. o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's up. liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the deliriums of fever. another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the in order not to have his feet in the water. and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, people run like this!" him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when "The cat." the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as Night had fully come. he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a CHAPTER IV--A The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper "Yes." "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their "I was praying to the martyr there on high." One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of him, shouting to the elder:-- that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of "What beastly weather!" said he. Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each