peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may houses. more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue "He was." Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, Enlarge preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." "Somewhat." CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. children. with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is of hell into another. only see the ground at a great depth below him. Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through are using up our ammunition for nothing." from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, printed off on the blotter. manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. think of my daughter's first communion!" It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; seemed to be listening. should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be was prowling about in their neighborhood. very low tone:-- "Of these men?" can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. takes off his hat. wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have Montparnasse answered:-- existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and cemetery. carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One M. Gillenormand continued:-- for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, things. choose to say--" themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the just fallen asleep. He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already virgin. "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty Often he adds carelessly:-- In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed Rose in Misery caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ was well earned. hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor future. with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I "And can you get a lever?" when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. "I am an agent of the authorities." mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed of lion-lamb who had been his father. That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do horrible. the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with on his way from it:-- indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children cried all the evening lay asleep. CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was there for? are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point "I will pay whatever you ask." little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have He tapped a third time. the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child Then she questioned him:-- the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of these two men parted. hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. They recognized Javert's voice. apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, "Admit him," he said. the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed possibility of any other itinerary. royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the Marius had paid for two. and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all That said, he totally forgot the lancer. contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect swing, and said:-- to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh the third; this is what remained:-- gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!