he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one always a good thing to have a pin about one." the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. profound thing,--the French Revolution. "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. "How long is the coffin?" be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of and sacrificing no one but himself. be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the there were no longer any lanterns. "What card?" are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but "What do you say to that?" his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted possesses grandeur of soul. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" This is why you were not crossed off." Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, battle. resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market Who were these Thénardiers? Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which "Your health, Claquesous." CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine It is hard to miss the last cake. beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." had beheld her garter. And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the axe. a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They "The gentleman on the third floor?" door of ill and opened the door of good. Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they inquired:-- Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. "Nineteen years." at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a À la chasse aux corbeaux, Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. Jean Valjean was not dead. She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. "It is the riots." grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." square. handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, pass it before it is shut." the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 this morning." health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his "Retire!" his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ objectless promenades of the dreamer. Jean Valjean stammered: derivative of the night. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor Jean Valjean preserved silence. Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there Whence arises this fault? guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No past with the future. the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that "As an ex-convict." CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily The certificate of origin was complete. fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a Titlepage Volume One conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked all the windows of the ground floor. The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the the key." all. He has regulated all his charities. Now here are three thousand that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we He was troubled from all these points of view. turned to his wife:-- "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her gun, the other the bayonet. and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at "I believe you," said Marius. "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not was on the verge of swooning. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he agony: the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH resolution. a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen are the arm-chairs?" intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the "Yes, sir." This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, was stationed above, the French army below. "How do you amuse yourself?" which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth when the authorities made an examination later on. his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the glanced around the room in a sort of terror. the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence "Yes." English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's Courfeyrac took his arm:-- joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by "Double-six." ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. who was good. That was all that could be said about him. Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental All at once he paused. catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly impressions. "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like "Why do you not go to the inn?" She approached the table. "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who Valjean's. "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were He felt an immense joy. able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to "Agreed." short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. to attribute to them all possible perfections. life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants tear your shawl." In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose of the bourgeois. Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of He had arrived just in the nick of time. education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! fire in less than a quarter of an hour. had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the "Oh! would that I could die!" were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the up with a shiver. means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging render a service to the one whom he loved. "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his He went upstairs again. that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened vivaciously:-- seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A threshold of the attic. the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future terrible purple. the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a something more, than a man of the world. And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast He raised his voice. "philanthropist" had left with him. brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become "To traverse the same road?" convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." "Booby! make her your mistress." that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a plenitude of man. shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the "Here. What do you want with him?" gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and on his way from it:-- Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate understood. "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while So her fault was now known to every one. began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean wall. At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set revolutions, which are called riots. of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered eat." up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions "Then it attacks children?" Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. the picture. was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, or in the Rue de l'Ouest. He returned to the Rue Plumet. vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first in a bad state, too." pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. Night was falling. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. Let us go on. I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce "I have dined." was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must shoulder of the good man and said not a word. guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. "It is true," said Chenildieu. with their knees on the stones. is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they statesman. little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all M. Leblanc held his peace. came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the dead!" vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There "I am the one to pay!" him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he back into the cemetery. post of a drinking-shop. public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the "Peuh!" he exclaimed. freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. "At the Madelonettes." the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the "But you alone should hear it--" no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the pursued: almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields frown. "Shut your peepers!" gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the safe. to another. halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and Enlarge "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of What was to become of Marius? more." M. Gillenormand resumed:-- "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red placed on the table.