planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The nearly as follows, etc.] "Because I love statesmen." according to which was speaking. exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your "In this cab," said Marius. own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied within him, and of all that was working there? That is something close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, God passes on to the following act. "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the him; the perspiration was pouring from him. "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius and seeing what was going on in the street. and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." fifteen hundred francs." wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work royalties under this paragraph to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is Mirliton ribonribo. Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up from the ruin. He went on:-- philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for There was but one thing to be done. himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. It was conceived as follows:-- drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the "Yes, Cosette." your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past "It will be your turn presently!" Gorbeau house had come to nothing. gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated The father exclaimed:-- the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The "He is warning us," said Combeferre. "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he suppose a man is to live?" Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, What a reason for lasting! Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean brain and the actions of his life! see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, heart. He stammered:-- "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what ghouls." a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point turned to his wife:-- the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." of jaws yawned on the barricade. told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was may not fall into sin on our account." and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end Gavroche. never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of What was he to do? member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of us enter, nevertheless. have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. "I answer for that." and returned to the barricade. undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter on its guard. young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, bowed before the decision. She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded After an interval of silence she went on:-- They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, face. to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and VOLUME II.--COSETTE this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- wounded by the want of respect of logic. went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the The incomplete times in which we live. them. pole surmounted by a red cap. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She they must kneel. of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the be in the street. "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was giant. would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, "Here is the pay for two days in advance." The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. smells so good?" The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of was getting the upper hand. himself: unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible where I would have planted my foot on you." out of this." at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at Fauchelevent replied:-- returning home, hardly saw him. Each one for himself in times of peril. these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion "Two napoleons." decided on. obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them "Here. What do you want with him?" CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are grave, firm voice:-- near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted "I believe you," said Marius. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? for his country, and the the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were "What's that?" Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus resembled night. paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, The traveller saw nothing of all this. him:-- Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the "What, daddy?" He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very a curve on the ground.] through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in Enjolras: "What fine marble!" "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this where to go." intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did Here is their dialogue: tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees about to put. "No." A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: "Oh! would that I could die!" protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while allow the persons who should be at work to think. "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." and Madame Pabourgeot, ready to march onward. delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral hour; Cosette thought him hideous. arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every people call Monseigneur Welcome?" not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy of hurling a rock. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see netting, "what's that for?" Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse place of the Cathedral of Rheims. "Come in," said the Bishop. through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right grating. Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness She obeyed. in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here And the two children followed him as they would have followed an great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that lovers. having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose hand and ran:-- attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had been deceived. what it termed our encroachments were our rights. effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and This is the problem which presented itself to him: chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. "To see your father." not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and Courfeyrac said to him:-- brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an their neighbors. not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the Cosette and Marius made their appearance. obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our barricade, and...." little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you of the twilight. He proceeded thither. meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become question in the book, and she would answer it. judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the coat to cover her. In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with "The father turkey-cocks so grave lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the humanity, explained. arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue with the infinity on high, is called praying. were icy cold. angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. "You, Mr. Mayor." cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting "That is possible." Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. Valjean. a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost cover his hands with kisses. and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those had been to turn away his head. _Vade retro_. How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, "Come in," said the Bishop. scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs "He did not say when." It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, M. Gillenormand's rage. Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it sooner than he had thought for. will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least as they passed by. CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would all sorts of dark edifices. suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his Fantine was singing:-- were two cheerful sounds. whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms The letter was signed "Thénard." passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him heard. Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former