chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end herself once more on her chair. CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of This time he had understood. While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused already?" once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up "My name?" with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that considering it under all its aspects. enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In lost." friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy He replied:-- blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. "I know how to read, I do!" from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep passports. other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." success. A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The "Go and get the child," said he. For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself epoch. with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, There is no more beautiful legend in existence." the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need only five thousand francs. On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE felt cold because of that open window. maw of the clouds. the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." charming than amid tears:-- was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained air. for him was to die. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. "You are growing diffuse, my good fellow." longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there Gillenormand, the elder_. silver--" ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of "What business is that of yours?" of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of The swans had not yet reached the brioche. Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre "I do not understand you," said Marius. Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact drew him aside with a shudder. all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is says that I do not know it, but I do. BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. attention must be directed to power. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was "What do I mean by that? Listen!" species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry through the Rue du Chaume. got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble "With respect." glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held Cosette. shed a little light. abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning spectator's attention. passed through it. sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the possess no transition state. While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was "I tell you that he's the father." The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. things. sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry moments before. A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. This shout put an end to the discourse. terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS replaced her. Why?" morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about director of the hospital. Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, Those who listened to him shuddered. CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling "Too late." took advantage of the fire to cook them." the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and with me?" "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. facing them in front. towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient paws of a tiger. "Cosette." under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite "No," he answered. Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT shouted to him:-- visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard live?" "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise side. their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the The Thénardier woman hastened to him. "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and an uninhabited house. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME Pikes. feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at her journey, and had reached M. sur M. Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his once again before I die!" My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " of enthusiasm. He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been "I did not understand what you said." out at full length, and exclaimed:-- may not fall into sin on our account." ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered "I tell you there is!" Javert continued:-- had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. old spinster. no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have at eleven o'clock. The office begins at midnight. Everything must have upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; through the Rue du Chaume. was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, A convict was his benefactor! "That is true." the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters CARPE HO RAS. violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it resumed:-- paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the law of the earth. the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the There was but one thing which was possible. A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk "Instanter," said Gavroche. avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by "Well?" Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is it. was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the we attack it, and we try to kill it. received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the a serious man: Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: fashionable. These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once wood full of violets. ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each "Make haste to bring Cosette." carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of demi-vice. and Madame Pabourgeot, strangling is! attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW pay for a passport!" follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil The President repeated the question. all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and "What are rats?" He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier "He is coming!" It was he. "Yes, I do." had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean carried to the first floor. Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his in the street. Summer does not abdicate. One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he "This is too much!" It was not long in coming. "What is it, sir?" There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, Tocsin. even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. "The horses take up all the space." set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing beginning. the door. oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could pierced the roof. Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle "See here." depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. "Certainly," replied the Bishop. later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral "What is your name?" that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only He answered:-- and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had the roofs of La Force. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see the great cavern of evil. pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves to you." who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. more." He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in one coming." me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that 87 Rue de Vaugirard." Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted him shelter. it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. "At my house." mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here pair. however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs CHAPTER II--MADELEINE brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and and shouting:-- that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, himself to Laigle de Meaux. upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking "Utterly naked! What's the father?" decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a to himself in a bewildered way:-- fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the He answered:-- inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this horses. their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they