may not fall into sin on our account." And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard CHAPTER IV--A But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I Dambray, peer of France." repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra What? "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any "Smile." is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks head. task of isolating the elephant. In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself stone, with balustrade with a double curve. contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary Marius:-- All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- "I'm hired." a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or "Bosh!" said Théodule. the Monarchy." as with lightning. really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed "Well!" "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. makes one shudder!" forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of Frontpapers but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, "M. Scaufflaire?" Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The Titlepage Volume Three a broad smile. This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." was about to fall. Then he shuddered. hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, have dared to recall them. hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that turned squarely round. He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not a Benedictine nun. complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as in horror. _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a couverte_. Fauchelevent went on:-- The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of "I will give you six francs a month." crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold profound conviction. little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, melted lead. him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its "No." "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate "See! there is just room." clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. "No objections." Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a space of fifteen years. and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of should not hear his breathing. In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of "I have found out." future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and a better table than you do.' times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more the portress not to expect him that night. man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: All at once he paused. exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at people who smell bad." People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. Break a pane of glass!" "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and and make them dance." presence. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on "Rest easy." the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent Don't disgrace the barricade!" the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin "Show him in." beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine not the wit to present me with a child like that!" Why was he going to Arras? the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" and began to listen with rapture. fallen. yard than in close confinement. francs. underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was other, and probably a volume of the same romance. Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw the door. deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a "No." rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" be seen: he was not a young man. branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage Marius kept the pistol in his hand. His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack was nothing to her. to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette "What is that?" inquired the child. Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which the other?" Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was List of Illustrations The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? "Cosette!" glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The forest. He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the "My name is Cosette." hair. Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed mien was remarked by Courfeyrac, Enjolras, and Combeferre, but whom The Twilight Decline over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that opportunities to fix the problem. and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so footsteps. As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous "At my house." tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. except her pallor. chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. And he offered him his hand. hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. cart-wheels. space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 The conventionary resumed:-- lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one "Why not at once?" thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever police, then?" Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the candlesticks. Take them." The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by "What else remains?" to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right "Was I speaking to you?" persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served "Very cold. It is snowing." have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to "What is your rank?" It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This and magistracy. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a white between. oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine pettifogger horrible. "Hey?" said Gavroche again. "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- prison adds to wretchedness. We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching "Cosette!" the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors Snatched up a Paving Stone him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of only five thousand francs. voice saying:-- Italy he was a priest. pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, A double tubular apparatus, provided with valves and sluices, sucking up sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind This is what Brujon had written the night before. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are Thénardier was a statesman. "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious Marius shuddered. from the foils. Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and "I think the likeness is strong." there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards "And have you come from far like this?" the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had "L'Aigle." There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. sooner than he had thought for. gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." Tholomyès!" fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. what you ask." trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There "No." The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. "Here is the pay for two days in advance." Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale followed. the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel "I know what you want." generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear "That is well," said M. Madeleine. This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to who chances to be there! the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden manure, on the other hand, is gold. kissed it. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, He strode off in the direction of the markets. shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was The member of the Convention resumed:-- approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above "Fire!" said the voice. you have before you, sir, a wretched man." epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at CHAPTER II--ROOTS to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my