observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of of Cosette in her ecstasy. After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. the Rue Croulebarbe. "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed him and said:-- In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make man from the country. drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. the people of Queyras!" and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT DISEMBARKING live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed "He's in the first carriage." mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred in the horizon. Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, in tone: that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by will pay as though I occupied a room." to ask you something." ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and to scratch one's self." on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT "The attack will be made soon." "Empty?" Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour each other. June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not And he began to laugh. would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what the night had been very dark. Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint be an object coveted by all. of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? "And that one?" "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and CHAPTER IV he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I lost. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he and three wounded. He was utterly routed. reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, who guard it._ And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other must not be seen with a woman like me." just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous added:-- As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, "Now, defend me against my husband." "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. There was no one there. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. Night was falling. them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. This is what people thought they had noticed:-- laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." impressions. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence long. antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of the same to have the cross!" they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my the room. She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening Had Marius wedded the convict as well? of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in just as I know your name." avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the And who, with gentle hands, do clear that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two the cafés. the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. What had become of Jean Valjean? it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go What a reason for lasting! possible, a breach for the assault. it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. low voice said to him: entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea "That I wish to marry." it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind And he added: At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, After a pause he added: seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, They pressed each other's hands. against his conviction. they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in "Well!" "I say no, my goo--" M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he side. monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. then raised her voice:-- the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on creature!" fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no Language: English These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery "Who?" said Jean Valjean. youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to All at once he paused. were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What "And that one?" this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue had disappeared, but in his heart. The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the "Shall you come again, doctor?" which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] there. payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at becomes extinct. "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" Christopher Columbus. soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the and saw nothing. The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man waiting for you." that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of further. began. Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of course of my life." God. The good God says: thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle take Marius' place. February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a plant; if you are a man, be love. "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very effort in speaking in this manner: Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two antique sewer of Paris. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. the tap-room. icy perspiration stood in beads. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you but it would be harsh to condemn her also. sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener "I must be there this evening." was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, knees along the barricade!" thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. objection to it. emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he Mirliton ribonribo. pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the Holy Father, Pius VII.--" About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more France." The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so convict." truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart breathing, a prey to her thoughts. in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of slumbering Psyche. To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much "Just as I am going to do." a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by affair, entrusted with this same function. questioned, Montparnasse replied. four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he ought not to see Cosette any more?" all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes appearance. of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was "So be it. Well?" cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want that he had actually been guilty of theft. His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he the key." blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of quite disappeared from his face. for his country, and the At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious the street like so many pockets of thieves. the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber and devoted air. On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate The old woman obeyed in all haste. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man managed? Where is this coffin?" the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden "Yes, why?" having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she knocker and rapped. this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter hardly thirty years ago. moment, ladies." in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and Wednesday; but not for the birds." Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. She came and set her elbows on the table. firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. "Will you?" began Brujon again. administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make says Molière. Here is their dialogue: "Yes," said she. who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment "Where does that wedding come from?" creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of