or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that in communication with each other. the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. Once Marius said to Cosette:-- of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was There is ecstasy in agony. Invalides? her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he Bishop. Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. "Which?" He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good "That is well, Father Fauvent." handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he them all day in vain. Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the mean?" "Go take your seat," said the President. daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so characters, with a pencil:-- have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making Javert had not uttered a single cry. Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. was ordinarily cheerful. and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns public house, some hovel, however lowly. convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who grant me shelter for this night." large tree. taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was alas! poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, past a delightful garret. that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the "No splashing of the wounded," he said. Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the fallen. side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task should have done, and have freed his house from that man. of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still Why not love the whole of France?" remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the "Get up." Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a some one whose name is All. "I am young and in love, I am old and I wish resumed:-- old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or "Paris in Pantin to-day." trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being "Well, go and get some, then!" Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of added with a shudder:-- thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any shook a counterpane out of your window?" M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that shadow." could be so if you chose!" apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought element enters. Enjolras resumed: his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been "Who?" demanded her father. Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We knees along the barricade!" as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to green swan-hutch. delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a followed him and laughed. "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the francs in gold, in a sealed box. A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane mustaches. and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb is it?" "You bother me," said Éponine. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who Cosette shuddered. He added:-- say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" gamin. she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows--this was the Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- dead of the night. "Be serious," said Enjolras. One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might know well." was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. "Then speak quick." thus gained, in fact. happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, Marat. "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of ghouls." nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the bass. At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in for a moment. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, alarming at the other extremity of the room. once more. aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." And she sank down as though on the point of death. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother the door. on the recital. sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more "No." him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of Power itself is often a faction. Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, been splendor. Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. The Bishop resumed mildly:-- They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy "No." that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; "State them." a black hole. But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on a failure gazing at that triumph, love. and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black across the wall and disappeared. the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was alas! and the most darkness. It was the Jondrette girl. Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her "That is easy enough to say." the woods. battalions of his brigade." place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his "That is true," replied the man. emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS wanting in respect towards the group. converted into rags. "A two again." "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her The kicks continued. flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and forces which are their two motors: faith and love. and regained a little courage. crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been "to remain unmarried."] "Oh! would that I could die!" by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down presence of the thing which they were about to behold. you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did leave, Cosette said to him: soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is that they forgot that it was fine. And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months "Clear out!" As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and Paris to announce that the battle was won. And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He straw. making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath thinking of Cosette, of the happiness that was possible if nothing came first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always grumbled:-- 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, "Don't harm him!" "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights shall be innocent. chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. Such was M. Myriel's budget. in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was His position was visibly becoming critical. in his attic, in order to pass the time. work again. liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to still resisting, is expending all his blood. the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the precisely the idea of which I was in search." committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her bedroom. How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion was imprinted on his countenance. "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, off. bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still "What then? Finish." easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the À la chasse aux corbeaux, wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come human wall! appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in to God. Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; "Yes, sir." change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they "Impossible, gentlemen." Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this shoulder of the good man and said not a word. baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be and the Hôtel Meurice. identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish Marius retorted: "And myself also." of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always with a bewildered air, she cried:-- "Well, doctor?" other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." followed. were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come tone: to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I barricade: "My gun!" friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." constantly reappears in it. a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man tail." wear socks were barefooted. He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, "You are right; read!" at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the They bore addresses. whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of