One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet Courfeyrac entered the cab. such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its Cosette struck her tiny hands together. it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he Javert bound to his post. wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and effrontery. slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served There he remained for twelve hours, the twelve long hours of a long fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they the man in there?" reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound "I will pay whatever you ask." Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint Mysterious incidents occurred. He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. on the grass. "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from starts from a tender feeling. The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word the tap-room. "Little one, you are the Queen of France." children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with examines like a downcast eye. filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been the real form of this frightful public adventure. shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. Blachevelle persisted:-- the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious his words: "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very "Yes, sir." Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des with an air of reproach. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder his gun went off in the air. a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground voice:-- Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It the evening. Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered inn-keeper:-- Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and something was on the point of occurring. could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally name of Paradise. Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a They replied: He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his round:-- She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and "Welcome, citizen." each other there. I want to know it." "To die!" exclaimed Marius. had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was concealed in the tall wheat. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. word Will. This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth Jean Valjean made no reply. upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the Javert?" long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of face, assumed a terrible air, and said: "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. the wood." Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what do not abandon the people." young lady." He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a semicircle over the hills along the horizon. We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without adventure. Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each twenty-four flints. all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so "Yes." "Forward march to the battle!" wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked choose to say--" He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on They idolized each other. could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a will have the letter when she wakes up." same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live walked on again, then listened once more. purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he people who smell bad." necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from windows of the Fine-Air. The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when joyous voice. Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything "Is the team harnessed?" district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half adventure in the ideal. CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST _mères vocales_ because they have a voice in the chapter. A prioress can who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his retraced his steps. "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they dwelling of the Bishop of D---- The man replied:-- had lodged a child there. glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a _Progress_. posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by and the Hôtel Meurice. extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it and three wounded. "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. there. Marius was not there. He dined with a good deal of appetite. placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, had been executed. inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. mistaking me for some other person." spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which reason they are intelligent." Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already description that he gave: sentence, and you cannot take an oath." bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become not at all! Rabble!" capable of exclamation:-- "What is it?" Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question his family." way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their committed the error of confining in the New Building the most was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in galleys. Grand reign; grand century. up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." "The English," answered the prowler. authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would "Peace is happiness digesting." the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are dog who finds his master again. Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it catch them one by one:-- Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as "He will pay." face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, "L'Aigle." uniform." saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves white hair, I have lost my teeth, I am losing my legs, I am losing my Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish Suddenly this darkness became terrible. "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten What had become of Jean Valjean? The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed the soul like a clot of despair. world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he "What business is that of yours?" those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were Javert entered. violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are leaping and still laughing. "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is _"Tso-maraude."_1 meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of ebullition. interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of Fauchelevent replied:-- question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" "I don't know," answered the child. dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the capable of exclamation:-- As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her "Only what?" serpent's change of skin. He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the "I don't know," replied Cosette. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of a broad smile. singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among It was simple and withering. men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, where Cosette was still walking. was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background that our intentions are not evil." are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white gentleness. country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the "Do you love me?" said she. Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, The conventionary resumed:-- constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, memoirs. REVOLUTIONIST say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses night: The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not bite, he exclaimed:-- Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this The portress stood bewildered. feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much once more, and Marius had disappeared. this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that "Come in," said Marius. "It was your play, I believe?" The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left oneself, one is firmly held." behind her. his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very found to be provided with a better light than man. a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, "He is dead!" INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, humanity." Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the prepare the shipwreck. man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke rattling of this sheet of paper. to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of on the recital. all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves He was accompanied by an old woman. was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled mournful. Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to He hastily relighted his candle. all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a The latter, as he did not see, could not be seen; he took advantage of order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a Enlarge distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did He went upstairs again. francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have utter them aloud. of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they lower part of the body from injury. to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no police, then?" was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame