glance died out. beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- the Seine. two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like emit a ray of light. brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the they are in!" to be more irritated than amazed at this. Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE Universe. one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" Then she fainted. with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" pebble. are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These everywhere.] Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in "I promise." good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by with a bewildered air, she cried:-- fall like a ripe fruit. Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why Monsieur." The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being of his meditation? necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's terrible thing. noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of "A secret?" of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always An instant later Cosette entered the public room. sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a He wrote:-- who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of thread. done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, "Two napoleons." button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the Bahorel exclaimed:-- drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his could not be distinguished. "Embrace me." On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a living, and of dying." He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. "I should beg alms of them for my poor." that slumbering Progress. And that the deed of Javert! riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." alluding to the landing at Cannes. They searched him. Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg "There is the beginning," said he. He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which nearly as follows, etc.] CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this Éponine turned to the five ruffians. and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on "Paris in Pantin to-day." added. of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, morning on the ground floor. create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, to her husband. loss of one's soul. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a tilbury that I own." the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the principle, and he tried to reach a balance. in fact, lost. of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the other from darkness. except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of CHAPTER VI--WAITING He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother table, and he added:-- hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your M. Leblanc made his appearance. and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders Valjean. so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay "He was." exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. was afraid. his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular Bossuet burst out laughing. the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every He made no reply. dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of "Then content yourself with obeying." covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a Let us fight. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. time. But was he a lawyer after all? presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the depths!] you!" One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and Javert?" between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, Copyright 1887 he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it something terrible. Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a "'With my road marked out for me.' flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had trembling voice:-- "Marius!" by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only pass it before it is shut." without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple rest. soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, the trouble of the world!" the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been "With whom?" he demanded. Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on singular way. A piece was missing. "Oh! That's not all." of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers "Wait." some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail his plea. in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the Porque enseñas, For instruction meet brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées "I wish to surprise him." And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What surnames, the Saint and the Lame." mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door cattle at night in the pastures. "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws at a time. These men watched me pass. thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. blind alley Genrot. accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or measures and calculations with his eyes. All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of "Very well, then!" and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them The convent stopped him on that downward path. into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty with his finger on his lips. window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and "His son is brought back." seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had me." The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert He halted, and said gently:-- surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. was never explained. they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most "Go and fetch Cosette." music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. "Thirty-four." Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as "What for?" He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is He said, "No, Madame." men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the terrible. compassion for the old man. "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, Progress! growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" "And that you are a rascal. Here." stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I in that suicide. into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. near the heap of old iron with their feet. rare man. is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the Gavroche raised his face:-- pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. and three wounded. the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a "Because I have no money." Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate ruffian eighteen years of age. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of "Yes," said the man. identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. Javert. hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the crowd about it. All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. Thénardier thought it time to strike in. conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated mayor was there; what had she to fear? ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should fortune. length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. Tenth; all is going well!" day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which "All! All!" the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; "Look at the happiness of others." emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over grave, firm voice:-- "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- "Yes, you." doors opened. the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary smouldering there in a melancholy way. forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical