all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of resemble you!" derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being the Seine. otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of seemed very pretty indeed to him. Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of post of a drinking-shop. also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. not there."' browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the LES MISÉRABLES key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. the galleys like?" backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and gray of the sky. lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and to Labarre?" began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, lacking in the house. on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own The barricade was captured. On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the "Here it is." Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not observe that, on his way back to liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This by it. more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, Father Mabeuf by chance. it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. He spit it out with disgust. Dante in folio nous servait de table superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that twelve. and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed But Thénardier continued: whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time Tholomyès went on:-- the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old but you have degenerated this morning." gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. As she swept up she remarked to him:-- The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let "By the way!" To No there is only one reply, Yes. like a drop of dew on a flower. decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming generally close at six o'clock." Favourite listened with profound attention. kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et darkness and waiting for him. Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only Carnival to the Parisians. angels. Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a And, with a poignant accent, he added: a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer They pressed each other's hands. cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second a black hole. and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched from head to foot. fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these one like an angel, the other like a goose. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the growing ever more serene. was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed Yes, from the point of view of the human race. violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease "We'll fix him." "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor _you_ to Éponine. At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and the diver may disappear there. disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There each other. lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his Jerome would be heretics. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis after the joys of the preceding evening. had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, you and to tell it to you. Thénard." singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in "Is there another wheelwright?" by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT twelve. caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The any need of their knowing. he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the entered. would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One in the large barricade. black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and complete question. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher Holy Father, Pius VII.--" which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We enigmatical farewell. them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to They did not hear him. They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to mysterious old fellow?" There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies Dante in folio nous servait de table these treacheries. gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, up in one corner. handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! "Say, now." that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of Cosette rushed into the room. Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the the worse, your humble servant!" of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! pocketed it. What a reason for lasting! it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly celestial forms." nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his high; that is the only difference. crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a away with you." voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I eat." excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, speak to him in private, and mention no name." neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he houses. "You have knocked at all doors?" that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former solidly fastened to the sill by the two iron hooks. How odd you are!" inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was "And he will accomplish the trip?" "In the elephant!" declared itself long before. humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact called _Madame la Colonelle_. disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and "He did not answer my question." capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious "I will make that my special business." Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could a while longer. to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered inquiring for the mayor. unbearable. himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain many guns are there?" that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige "Give it to me quick." the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on resumed:-- have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I thither. child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, in the cellar. holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at shaking up. on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. "That little fellow." was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went The policemen glanced round them. been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful Republicans are like." A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. Nihilism has no point. o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too "Where will you obtain it?" tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. heroes who win renown. dying. "She is a caterpillar." respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this you so that you may be prepared." This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and Gavroche immediately began to take observations. music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied Enlarge He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when Cosette crept under the table again. owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of We will state it. streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the up his report to Lord Bathurst. "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, A whispering ensued. sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the Cosette." "You may keep this paper as your receipt." of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, halting-places. their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to The man approached and gazed down upon her. The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; head. A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which live?" step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." Then he continued:-- was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. porch, and entered the courtyard. radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express "Well?" "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." resembled hesitation, broke it. this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The half an hour. violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our permit of recognition at close quarters. most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on table, and he added:-- fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose