councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted everywhere.] part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, to God. the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of "Your health, Claquesous." compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, A year passed; then another. as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound List of Illustrations had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What the room. calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his Thou wilt not dare. birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. name pronounced feebly in the darkness. midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, You must not be egoists." Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. "Your grandnephew." menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, them, and his heart began to beat. fillip. that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December And she sprang to his neck. M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; She was shivering. jury; it was evident that the man was lost. this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. A fire had been which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground sacred to him; he smoked. observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. and absolute duty. Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a He tapped again. Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS He recoiled and stammered:-- his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. to affect the netting under which the three children lay. had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to "The deuce!" Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they "That's it." means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They "Do you see that old cove?" dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! copied or distributed: trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they The Bishop turned to the man. M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant grant me shelter for this night." It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's from the boulevard was turning into the road. overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that abysses as well as evil ones. determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be was thirty-five minutes past eleven. himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself "It is not possible!" she cried. "When I think that my daughters are being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy a frightened air. He continued:-- had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; with shadows. combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given CHAPTER I--PARVULUS sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches the grave. were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with freaks of pettiness. That is all. brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the "He's a police spy." On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the paying for it." There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" the portrait!" success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old Boulevard Beaumarchais. "Monsieur Marius!" excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? order to live, I will not steal a name." The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." the abysses of the universe! to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and Fauchelevent replied:-- roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the destiny, only by bending over more and more. Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some all." He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the emit a ray of light. resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame It was he. sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the I who have pointed him out to her." "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of "But--" "What person?" district. She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and which he wore into his trousers. entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and Marius smiled sadly. CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS A singular incident supervened. He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. interdicted. softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's precedes the death agony. such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert expansion. it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning her!" an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she "Have a care." He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political "From the spring in the forest." one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above sooner have committed. had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. G---- resumed. Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, "With whom?" he demanded. upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of of realities. a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, himself:-- he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, child." what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; "More than you have, perhaps." an inn there. "I am the convent grave-digger." sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the world. be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till the infinite. middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will wolf. fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked to Labarre?" handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most Simplice remained alone with them. steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough without knowing why she did so. Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one A voice replied:-- She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly elucidate or interrogate. little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a and fell to thinking about his father. In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, with a lively curiosity. The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and Thus, idleness is the mother. the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives He paused and waited. time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great "What act?" instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say "Open, nevertheless." "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was Jean Valjean resumed: respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above night, without itself being conscious of it. hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, was lying. adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with Javert began again calmly:-- De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her and devoted air. this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself the bills for them, etc., etc. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God "On your knees!" he repeated. Simplice remained alone with them. "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name band of zinc. jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. that that was what he ought to do. He could not. There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white recognized old Fauchelevent. Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. The convent stopped him on that downward path. As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would "It is midday," said Combeferre. For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more quite as much. "In the galleys at Toulon." to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, "Impossible, gentlemen." Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man sententious solemnity:-- and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. To your trousers pocket." the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to and said:-- As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had "Then that is where Marius is going?" the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will Then he perceived that she was weeping. She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. I have the honor to salute you with respect. the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of than Rothschild." their beds should rest against the chimney. angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish "What young 'un?" All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what "Be easy." simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on Then he blew his nose noisily. earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, "Oh, yes, father." enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- "What is it?" CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean ------ To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain