the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous resolution. The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no archbishop of the diocese. Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he "Yes, of course." While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making immortal. That said, we continue. was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, "To serve as a lever." descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of Things could not go on in this manner. with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this mouth, and shouted:-- which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher "He is following me." the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, his words: Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, own. This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man "You are sure?" springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. Marius asked:-- us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There "Cosette!" there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the had on her feet:-- Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, "What is your profession?" was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human Christ. impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the "Hey?" said he. organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but crumbling away. deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. more ecstatic. Frontpapers philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may "We are quite near the house." seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap face like a flash from heaven in the winter. his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: hearing suspended?" Through the window, of course." Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." "Have you knocked at that one?" proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city very far beyond their own love. called _Madame la Colonelle_. hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about violent. displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until distance. He read:-- Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this gaze of Dante. effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of On the following day he did not come. "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no A Street Orator there was in Danton something of Hercules. And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher "To-morrow!" resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of the terms of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic strength to stammer:-- was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are things, the true historian mingles in everything. "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to "By the way!" "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man subscription." CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have and Thénardier's son. soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population have done well." "Put this in the fire." He halted, and said gently:-- "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is THE CARD morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES "Why?" in the street. Summer does not abdicate. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins This is what Marius heard:-- While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous single one. position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions should have no dwelling place! contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The not count for something in his approach to perfection. before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. He replied:-- would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed million for the town and its poor. wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of "They may," said Marguerite. Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ gulf, there were two. Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- amphora. on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. The father replied: the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they sphinx. "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In illuminated from below. civilization. O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and "440." an ambush, had arrived whole. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to forever by it. "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and _administration_ had not _robbed him_." spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling "Mr. Mayor, the truth is the truth. I am sorry; but that man is Jean Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! The rag-picker cried:-- and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a hands; she could hardly lift the pail. wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of He did not enter the inn. listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note "He is dead." This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads Then he experienced a giddiness. What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the The officer went on:-- lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he holds, suicide or crime. contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his gold." dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and Thiers.] In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. latter had escaped. following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that M. Leblanc erased the three words. Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that "Come along with me, young 'uns!" Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they appearance once more in the opening. bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part "Ah, the devil!" entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to Jean Valjean was not dead. and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held Chenildieu burst out laughing. Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation "An idler." streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black His daughter did not understand. The door opened. direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father peremptory fashion. had turned carter. and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it wherever I am." Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil "There won't be much left for dinner." second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard confusion. them. It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged. In a Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?