"What is your request?" said the King. rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far presence of all humanity. us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." letter once more on the staircase. standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as "Yes," replied the mother. Marseillaise. "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. "So you do not recognize me?" turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material prison parlance. antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen This was the grandfather. to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the The conventionary resumed:-- The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time of a hated individual. "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of it was least expected. Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another she had a black hole in her mouth. these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have circumstances. This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should Give us back our father." "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, Grantaire retorted:-- Javert replied: minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than stir, or turn her head. she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have Valjean." low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand isn't a sou." no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of "What is this?" said the traveller. francs fine!" "Yes, Babet." sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the nothing. They held a consultation. found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on invisibility. of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic "I have my papers," he said calmly. had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless men, and smoke. the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is Then he continued:-- corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du a black hole. the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! How odd you are!" sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. white between. think. I can do what I please about it." child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." chariot drawn by marine monsters. little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in very unhappy. What should I do then?" Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, hearing suspended?" forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that "It is not that." "Behold the great martyr." M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. of Mechlin lace. virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, altogether. Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad This is what she read. public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest VOLUME II.--COSETTE him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, "Get into bed," replied the man. are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the eagle. recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily singular way. A piece was missing. warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. grandeur of Æschylus! short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. assumed an expression of hatred. network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always beginning, the whole play would have been changed." you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. "Informed against me!" the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. favorable to it. this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the "Yes." By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the M. Leblanc let them take their own course. in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible, that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. Thereupon he set out again on a run. himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last "Of that young lady." venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, "Nor to any one." "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. "It is settled, reverend Mother." The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on ventriloquist. _administration_ had not _robbed him_." She was shivering. meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: red. table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a being:-- any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, room. Immediately." "I say no, my goo--" "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was "The one who is singing?" Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE After a pause he went on:-- one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in 30 (return) [ A democrat.] Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those Then he continued:-- crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. "Poor, dear child!" said she. "Then--" centenarian as erect as a young man. brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " millionaire of stars. sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger of hurling a rock. ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing he survived after he was shot. of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. would be broken in five minutes more. azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, combination with lack of discipline. woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons he was free. when the authorities made an examination later on. two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." flatter Moses. low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. illusions. he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same time. neck. lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the his plea. Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast "Ultime Fauchelevent." brain and the actions of his life! will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier the scarf became a shawl once more. Cromwell. Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent vanished. under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought to enlarge the aperture still further. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of glow of those salamanders of the fray. element enters. without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER There was no one there. "We are talking business." over. moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking been splendor. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an sleeve:-- plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother blind alley Genrot. evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, "This is too much! How is this?" looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started behind the door, and were shaking him:-- Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he "Fifty sous--three francs." beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" fast. dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. word. these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth the real form of this frightful public adventure. without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was wood." to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose "It is settled, reverend Mother." yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular like to kick her stomach in for her!" having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, "Her grandfather." tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the Other fatalities were destined to arise. longer." And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled to trembling. seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was be composed of future and be sympathetic. Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old "I am she," replied Cosette. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my Enlarge the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? eyes:-- That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' it back in its case. Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An he wrote: longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices "Yes, I do." the word--robbed. following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand the hospital. market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make a poor country here." 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine went on:-- strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. Fauchelevent. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering glow of those salamanders of the fray. CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from "So there is a fair going on here?"