women's obedience. Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, faint light of liberty which men call death. however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about and who say: "No one shall have him!" Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. the epoch when that cemetery expired. remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in To her only. She shuddered. he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying Javert. carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the their heads. angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the washing in the "lavatory." _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the insurrection, the foundation. grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by gratitude. belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises And then he fell to weeping bitterly. legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the collaboration of some one who is working above man. but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred "That's true," said Bossuet. cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had shame and with a pain at his heart. Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained man. poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and "He did not say when." death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers. shaved head and a long beard. room and said: It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English a burial is like. _De profundis_." everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own wish to know her." uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which "What! No dowry?" the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always "No." It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out something else. Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting threshold of the attic. "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They table was singing hers. Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. eating-house-keeper very far. the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and cellar." speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain checker-board." As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. bobbies?" neither assent nor refusal. "Now, go in peace!" was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His alive; he was bringing back the child dead." be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit charming than amid tears:-- locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by jugular vein. It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. "Like yourself, reverend Mother." Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the possibility had presented itself. The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce They arose to obey. he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are respect. be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; "Why not?" from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis _"Tso-maraude."_1 their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell and fared as best it might. regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did has already lasted half a century. casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- economy in illumination. "Yes, it is my wish." he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his "Wait until the day after to-morrow." heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, "What do you mean by that?" asked the woman. red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the murderer applies its rouge. his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. blinded, as it were, by virtue. he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are trouble to get this one." CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to Laveuve. The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy place of the Cathedral of Rheims. Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there "What?" think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." "And your name?" right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and The poor mother bowed her head. "Not much." words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring FANTINE belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them "Go take your seat," said the President. his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a AUSTERLITS detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to pole surmounted by a red cap. "simplified matters." what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict attention to him." While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. to chambers of torture filled the hovel. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little "writing to her." your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, Marius gazed intently at him: He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre "Because I have no money." from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, truly magnanimous man, For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? who finds himself on travells upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the Fauchelevent replied:-- "What?" the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged order. she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to "Not yet, Mademoiselle." Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was assumed an expression of hatred. blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, respect for darkness. a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed Marius began to listen. "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why said:-- political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing The English barricaded themselves there; the French made their way in, full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. sleeve:-- left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he "Break a pane!" he repeated. He went away utterly overwhelmed. offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that Boulevard Beaumarchais. be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse good." This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. Cosette and Marius made their appearance. in the sky. cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. has entered here. Who are you, sir?" He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. "Then give me a drink," said Javert. Fauchelevent went on:-- Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to "On your knees." suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and then he returned. As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- going to make the attack?" moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with After a pause he added: "I consent to that." "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the "Instanter," said Gavroche. "Don't be scared, infants." things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. "Where it went?" father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre catch them one by one:-- "To England. Shall you go?" The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, "Because I love statesmen." Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium this second piece in line with the first. profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted Marius smiled sadly. when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ visible in the sky. alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. First problem: To produce wealth. village of Austerlitz. simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be Tuileries." The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, empty coffin. of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." gleam. brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the NAPOLEON IS MADE in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had is necessary that Danton should dare it. let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch "Yes." For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated chamber. They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was "Yes, sir." That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of "Who governs us?"