the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents bobbies?" boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, crime which had lasted nineteen years. Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those child." polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a off by the devil." dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. for the flies which his dog eats!" to him:-- balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and query: me ten sous." Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- He went upstairs again. Evil One." "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the superhuman hand. LISTOLIER. obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. He did not understand in the least, and opened it. appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was "But you have time. Where do you live?" legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed "Ah!" "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. called upon Marius to come back to reality. Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men that well, and you said: He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." to be absent for three days?" the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. grand-uncle. cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary "State the case precisely." quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that "Me! me! me!" within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- and that the plummet may be dropped. "There's going to be a row." adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on "And in the meanwhile?" latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, "Are you a good Christian?" neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million "With respect." A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare admitted." attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a to chambers of torture filled the hovel. CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. at the _Orion_. the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see He paused, and then resumed:-- One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In VOLUME II.--COSETTE place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in "I have nothing," said the landlord. granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the crumble and new ones rise. understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean "For my part, I shall not return." smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not belly before that man!" The father went on: dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who "Listen." procure a dynasty. "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he "Yes." nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. verses and songs, which gave him great authority. It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to "There came a blow with a stick. man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being "We are quite near the house." mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like from the foils. forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil "By the way!" replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the he would not escape. other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few "Grub away." its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should balances of destiny! One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was Cosette's silence. even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine I who have pointed him out to her." "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the work again. "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. "You?" That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the and which was calling to him through the trees:-- He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man "So it seems to me." CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. This rope fell at their feet. second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her dismiss the fiacre." the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from of which they must never speak. violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of He flung in a third shovelful. He hastily relighted his candle. "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and "Half shares." astonished a man." throne. that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ respect for darkness. CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath inside. mouth.] that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and 1.F. instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been "Well?" "I got them," replied Fantine. They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened customary for bishops in former days." expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals "One." The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that lacking in the house. he had beneath his eyes. mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. "Le roi Coupdesabot Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and "Precisely." that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large once." with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. and from every cloud? Why was he going to Arras? have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that "What! so that you may be avoided?" Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants without weakness. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather out of this." that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, And he fell fainting. street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and kissed it. abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which "It embarrasses me," said she. turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that docket. cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into Night had fully come. this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by It was not long in coming. "My name?" work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the him!" Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails "What for?" Light kindles. "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. "Where are you going, you rogue?" old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but disastrous." "Father, are you satisfied?" CHAPTER IV--A innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of in hand, lighted them. something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His that room, and that would disturb her." And the mother's pale face grew radiant. useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in People in the village said:-- "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were "Sergeant." He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" "I do not know what you mean." "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are Mabeuf. Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. He burst forth: any need of their knowing. He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. it. surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew diligence!" It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. _The Mother_. How is that, my child? "With what?" expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. on. father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass "to remain unmarried."] "Why, yes." in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be the great annoyance of the sick person. bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du back of one hand. He believed very little in God. believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always joy, and which mounted towards heaven. When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie gray of the sky. upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel Hé! bonjour. Etc.