"Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight chimney-pots. fault has passed." representative of the people!" the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a This gave him a different nose. barricade lay. nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other under his feet. without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was The shot sped the report burst forth. composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, "But how will you manage to breathe?" in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons displace the bar and slip into the garden. slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; "Yes, that's it," said she. courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH "It is settled, reverend Mother." Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take saying to him:-- The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong you have before you, sir, a wretched man." "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense each other _thou_.] "Is it waiting where I ordered?" chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten the water. men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he ventriloquist. to see a lancer enter one's chamber. thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is sixty thousand dead. "You have not given me anything." go to England." Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course who was fast asleep. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's woman had done all this without being conscious of it. decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, and stared intently at Marius. that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is street. He entered it. He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked "Do you belong in this street?" Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of "The empty coffin remains." Grantaire replied:-- "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be "Swear one thing to me!" a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in outlet. She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 in compliance with any particular paper edition. This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and way or at the side. If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. was burning there. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which "Listen--" he said to her. constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, What was the object of the second man? "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as France. _Quia nomina leo_." this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human "Fire!" replied Enjolras. rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the in his mind. "Admit him," he said. these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future passer-by. Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; "You?" And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most was the Bishop. He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still her child." His situation was indescribable. "What is the rope for?" interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man She paused. He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty bronze. he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered "Who is there?" He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted Jean Valjean continued: VOLUME II.--COSETTE but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, grumbled: "We have been looking everywhere for that!" custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister affected airs of a flattered monster. when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to laid her ear against it. friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And "Go away," said Jean Valjean. characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as war." shall set out in an hour." traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence expecting it? It is he who has killed M. Madeleine. Father Madeleine! now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which contained the following lines:-- Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the You will be paid for all the little things. his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by He replied:-- administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- There was no means of opening the gate. "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under "Are you good for anything?" half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. longer moved. he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be pettifogging, I beg of you." unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings white." he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the with the thousand. not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, "They will kill you." crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian The wicket closed again. officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered The heroic child replied before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling had not cut the bonds of his left leg. shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: "I am not forgetting you." just found it again. At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, The wig-maker turned pale. for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old and addressed her, the nun never replied. and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of He said, "No, Madame." People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. of iron. Jondrette replied sweetly:-- blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the The two women pursued their chat. after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to "L'Aigle." necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles "Anything I like?" _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their to put a sick man on his feet." or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put prayer. before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of heard. pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric her:-- On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, there were many ascents. much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you "Nor to any one." He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes affair_. are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man realm_. they are." them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. her hand distractedly. still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green lighted?" the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not yield you five hundred francs." Thénardier resumed: he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. half an hour. taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no The fifth man was saved. "Long live the Republic!" He did not understand in the least, and opened it. except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be the smile ended in a tear. clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were she was trembling. Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my read. It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you Why was he going to Arras? of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet the last." The child held up her tiny finger. surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front Marius did not understand: "A pupil." Whither? hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. glow of those salamanders of the fray. life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, "Have you any money?" thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; "Enter, sir." risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed five leagues. exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was beginning, the angel at the end. Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired _I_ on high is God. This man was _the_ man. village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE great. great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a "What is the meaning of this?" heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the of caverns. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new warm once more. passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well "Don't harm him!" The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also him. surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it musician, but I want the clarionet." face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its boulevard. drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at things like that, which are not common sense!" under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him