under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that voice. Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a All voices cried: and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." "You!" said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good his glance dropped to the four uniforms. one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial "You are doing well." through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six meeting on the Jungfrau. Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the "I can't budge." Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo have been lost. Bishop's palace. I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had "More than you have, perhaps." Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of "Turned out," said Javert. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the wanting in respect towards the group. arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that "I am paralyzed with cold." "My colleague," said the man. into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent "Father, are you satisfied?" space of fifteen years. say timidly:-- "Nor to any one." Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was Enlarge And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was through great rays of gilded wood. of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along demolition complicated with wrath." the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the inn-keeper, saying:-- himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, country, his paradise. tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the fashion in barracks and hospitals. five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and human eye cannot see. "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but Tocsin. itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the the centuries, halos of civilization. to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue had been able to remain in France. When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the have been already mad." to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the "Bread and cheese," said the man. "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever come from us." exclaimed:-- service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, immense question: the sewers of Paris. bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. Jean Valjean was not dead. connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young d'Austerlitz. ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. "Sir?" Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens upon Javert, was a rude shock. sadness had been possible to her. pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity The father replied: this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. resumed:-- She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, "He is coming!" catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its "You have not given me anything." blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: to me." legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed It was not easy to direct his course. Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were he could read it. disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular "No, the persons have moved away." spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was you defiance with this word: I love you!" pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and Christ is the man-God. "She did not say." other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own And that the deed of Javert! towards him. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month INDIA hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, strewn with corpses. He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a that slumbering Progress. petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and chamber and that it should be he. Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do Favourite was the first to break the silence. had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. Gavroche immediately began to take observations. Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made abdicates from suffering? between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To meditated. the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness than ever. he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really seen! Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild He paused and said gently: "All out!" shouted Enjolras. unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a left for him to desire. the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth remarkable inscription:-- Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. face, but his name as well. was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out tombs." was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the This shout put an end to the discourse. observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. Javert ventured to make a final effort. Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. "Better. Is your master up?" seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell All at once she paused. Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every "Everything is as usual." slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you She loved Tholomyès. "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the chair. from the night. moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, Men shouted to Marius from the groups: "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred and his new coat. my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father blowing out his brains. cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. service." As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is see!" "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love "Monsieur--" mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, being sketched out. England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion "No," said Gavroche. became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the They searched him. "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The "You are a wheelwright?" Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. "Yes." peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! "440." buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the Marius could not repress a cry of joy. M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a you." and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined To this there is but one reply: "In former days." The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the "What do I mean by that? Listen!" "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. "He is," said Enjolras. in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla that institution was like. the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the In this manner she reached the bench. "You have been a soldier?" and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He "You have knocked at all doors?" "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we Marius. Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand unbearable. CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple There is a purple from below. Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his His daughter did not understand. closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois "I am not forgetting you." "Yes." bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the "Turned out," said Javert. you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." "On your knees." short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon cries. scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, He paused, and then resumed:-- They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. added. Javert!" entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. You will be paid for all the little things. sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of Fauchelevent replied:-- Babet interrogated him:-- need. built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened Take it. He says that here is haste." dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they etc. The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his "Thanks," he said feebly. fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it "Because I have no money." Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic rascally marauder.] had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time Enjolras shook his head and replied: An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. Still, he felt that he had lost time. therein mentioned; that is clear." put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open