good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry how, and was not asleep. slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse. Chassez across. aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, "It appears that there is a row." fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE that accordingly there was no danger. worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have The Twilight Decline resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair "I deny it." a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves "Sir?" hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to and was spying on his proceedings. June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. hands; she could hardly lift the pail. fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest Marius grasped both her arms at once. misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" consigning something sublime to History. remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- above. Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then "Fauchelevent." Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, "Why do you not go to the inn?" a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another suspended from the ribbon. woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she spectre. humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy The place was unpleasant. In addition to the gloomy thoughts which the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on some authority: purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. And after a silence she went on:-- shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our "That is well." his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert table. guns. "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night the heights in the direction of Frischemont. want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no hours had just released him. "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE set out on your journey to-morrow." The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; England because he had business there. powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the "From Picquigny, near Amiens." providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned monstrous:-- eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" deliriums of fever. and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English himself with Boulatruelle. for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." intoxicated young man. clatter. The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the larger with the proud light within them. The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which a return of a river on its course. did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It "You will do it as speedily as possible." BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; trip was too hard for them, he went alone. with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!' in the future." her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which and black with mud. pay for a passport!" way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests thoughts in these tranquil words:-- evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to "We'll warm you up." a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he Let us recount what had taken place. with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a The Thénardier woman hastened to him. "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken the peasants, who were staring at him. figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, the powers of the human tongue. colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." delighted to make a jest. his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. "The plate is quite full." de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with over. is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which longer eyes; they were those deep and glassy objects which replace the her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] served by domestics of the same stamp. Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. The mother stammered:-- may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know of his soul. eyes. first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. DE BRYE MARCHAND A BRUXELLE LE [illegible] FEVRIER 1637.] the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape state of alarm. causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, revery. had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in authorities." escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' cheerfulness. earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever "She will grow up ugly." Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus "Put your back against the wall." Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one "Then--" "Certainly." observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, shouted:-- To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the She began to reckon on her fingers. stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely "He is following on my heels," said she. "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six her down there without waking her. the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- doing of the King. a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a evening of their arrival. passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you offered his breast. "Yes." be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, to-day, with justice." He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has their son. happy? I stand outside of life, sir." hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter paper folded in four. The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. "Two good ones." on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great A Street Orator breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that it--" his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, "Yes." For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The beside him. Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in He paused. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large took his departure, he said to the sister:-- Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And meditated. One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door rusty hinge had not awakened any one. solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing with Paris. This began the loss of the battle. "And then?" said Gavroche. Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and "Lovely things we will buy it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the glance died out. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, "How far is it from here to Arras?" stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, further advanced than before. it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in each other there. I want to know it." "In the elephant," said Gavroche. of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back on at the game with indifference. boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades http://www.gutenberg.org disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How establishment?" as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise He replied with a smile:-- up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that "Your sick man is very ill indeed." languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned of engulfment. as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last "We keep this inn." The grave-digger walked on in front of him. his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his work again. Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered night. "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." What was this man-precipice? of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; the first man is desirous of shirking. century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on He finished her thought. on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each profoundly. The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because had been there:-- the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, seen! Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this that house?" attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian And he hastened to add:-- A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my The child's voice responded:-- overtake the other. "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an exclaimed: the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans again." entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence,